Another week of GW News, July 18, 2010

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July 18, 2010

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• Bottom Line, Subsidies, IEA-UNEP, 446 Questions, Nastiness, Abuse, Media Complicity, Post CRU, Pepsigate
• Melting Arctic, Jakobshavn Isbrae
• Food Crisis, Food vs. Biofuel, Land Grabs, IP Issues, Food Production
• Hurricanes, GHGs, Nitrogen Cycle, Temperatures, Paleoclimate, Historical Climate, ENSO, Oceans
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Is funny. Yes?

• 2010/07/17: ClimateP: (cartoon - Horsey) If global warming were caused by aliens...
• 2010/07/16: DM:DB: Insane Clown Posse Dissed Scientists; Lab-Coated Geeks Strike Back
• 2010/07/16: uComics: (cartoon - Toles) Cap and Grade
• 2010/07/16: ClimateP: (cartoon - Wuerker) They always hate government ... until they need it
• 2010/07/15: BSD: Everything going well for climate denialists, except for climate
• 2010/07/13: ClimateP: (cartoon - Toles) Toles slams our failed energy policy, right wing
  "There is really only one strategy remaining for conservatives. Prevent an economic recovery while Obama is still president, thereby clearing the way for an anger-filled electorate to lift up a truly crazy candidate"
• 2010/07/13: DeSmogBlog: ScamWow! Greenpeace Has The Perfect Solution For Scrubbing BP's Oily Image

  And for those who enjoy challenging Poe's Law:

• 2010/07/16: Wonkette: Coal Companies Kill Mountains, For Fun

  Looking ahead to COP16 and future international climate negotiations:

• 2010/07/16: NdPL: Accountability Needed in Facing Climate Change

  The UN CFG met in New York city this week:

• 2010/07/14: IPSNews: Pacific Islands Criticise Stalled Climate Financing
  Despite the creation of a High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF), a group of hard-hit Pacific islands is expressing doubt that aid will be delivered in a timely manner.
• 2010/07/14: UN: Senior UN official [Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of UNCTAD] joins climate change financing advisory group [UNCFG]
  The head of the United Nations agency tasked with promoting trade and development today accepted a request by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to join his advisory group on climate change financing to strengthen the world body's role on that body. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Secretary-General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), joins the other members of the High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing, which is co-chaired by Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, and the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg. Other principals on the 21-member team include the President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo, philanthropist George Soros, French Minister of the Economy, Industry and Employment Christine Lagarde, and prominent British academic Nicholas Stern, as well as finance ministers, bank representatives, regional financial and monetary officials, and leading economists from around the world.
• 2010/07/14: SINA: UN chief calls for delivery on climate change financing
• 2010/07/14: Xinhuanet: Pacific Islands issue urgent appeal for "long overdue" climate change finance
  In an urgent appeal to the United Nations, the Pacific Small Island Developing States (Pacific SIDS) on Tuesday called on developed countries to advance progress that has been stalled in delivering financial resources for climate change adaptation and mitigation projects. Chair of the Pacific SIDS Marlene Moses expressed frustration over the "long overdue" aid at a briefing by the UN secretary- general's Advisory Group on climate change finance (AGF), which wrapped up a two-day meeting here [in NYC] on Tuesday.
• 2010/07/12: BizGreen: New York talks to tackle climate financing deadlock
  UN advisory group meets later today to find way to raise $100bn a year in climate change funding for developing countries
• 2010/07/11: BBerg: Climate Finance Deal Needed to Break Treaty Deadlock, U.K.'s Huhne Says
  Developed countries must devise a way to channel $100 billion a year in climate aid to poorer nations to secure an international deal to fight global warming, U.K. Energy Secretary Chris Huhne said.

Yet another pre-COP16 meeting, for mountain countries in Kathmandu, Nepal this time:

• 2010/07/14: Xinhuanet: Nepal to host int'l climate change meeting in Oct.
  Nepali government has sent invitation to 51 mountainous countries for a meeting on climate change scheduled for October 4-5 in capital Kathmandu. [...] Countries having mountains over 4,000 meters high are included in this group.

The Major Emitters are meeting again too:

• 2010/07/18: KhaleejTimes: Nations to seek clean energy cooperation

  A National Academy report on the long term effects of present day GHGs has yet to sink in:

• 2010/07/16: NAS: Near-term emissions choices could lock in climate changes for centuries to millennia; report estimates impacts from various levels of warming
• 2010/07/16: TDC: Locking in our future
  Today's emissions decisions will drive the planet's weather for generations, panel concludes. The question for policymakers: How much change do we want to dial in?

The Noah Diffenbaugh GRL paper "Intensification of hot extremes in the United States" drew some comment:

• 2010/07/17: TEC: More Heat Waves in Next 30 Years
• 2010/07/16: PostTrib: Future summers in region could be sizzling
• 2010/07/15: CCP: Mark Shwartz: Heat waves and extremely high temperatures could be commonplace in the U.S. by 2039, Stanford study finds
• 2010/07/15: DemNow: Study: Global Warming to Bring Increased Heat Waves to US
• 2010/07/13: TerraDaily: Heat Waves Commonplace In The US By 2039

  J. T. Emmert has reported a puzzling collapse of the thermosphere:

• 2010/06/15: GRL: (ab$) Record-low thermospheric density during the 2008 solar minimum by J. T. Emmert et al.
• 2010/07/15: Space: Record Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere Puzzles Scientists
• 2010/07/16: CNN: Scientists baffled by unusual upper atmosphere shrinkage
  Decreased solar activity, increased CO2 levels affect Earth's outer atmosphere - Those factors, however, can't explain this much of a contraction, researcher says - Changes in thermosphere won't affect life on the surface but can affect satellites - The thermosphere has already begun to rebound, but monitoring will continue
• 2010/07/17: TreeHugger: Earth's Upper Atmosphere Suffers Record Breaking Collapse
• 2010/07/15: PhysOrg: A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere
• 2010/07/15: CSM: Earth's upper atmosphere [thermosphere] collapses. Nobody knows why.
  An upper layer of Earth's atmosphere recently collapsed in an unexpectedly large contraction, the sheer size of which has scientists scratching their heads, NASA announced Thursday. The layer of gas -- called the thermosphere -- is now rebounding again. This type of collapse is not rare, but its magnitude shocked scientists. "This is the biggest contraction of the thermosphere in at least 43 years," said John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab, lead author of a paper announcing the finding in the June 19 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "It's a Space Age record." The collapse occurred during a period of relative solar inactivity -- called a solar minimum from 2008 to 2009. These minimums are known to cool and contract the thermosphere, however, the recent collapse was two to three times greater than low solar activity could explain. "Something is going on that we do not understand," Emmert said.
• 2010/07/15: NASA: A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere
• 2010/07/15: CCP: NASA: A puzzling collapse of the thermosphere in the Earth's upper atmosphere

  One of those depressing psychological studies that explains a lot:

• 2010/07/13: NPR: In Politics, Sometimes The Facts Don't Matter
  New research suggests that misinformed people rarely change their minds when presented with the facts -- and often become even more attached to their beliefs. The finding raises questions about a key principle of a strong democracy: that a well-informed electorate is best.
• 2010/07/11: BostonGlobe: How facts backfire -- Researchers discover a surprising threat to democracy: our brains
• 2010/07/12: StageLeft: Forget The Facts, I Believe What My Party Tells Me

  There's still some chatter about Anderegg et al.:

• 2010/07/15: GreenGrok: Who's Who in Climate
• 2010/07/14: ClimateP: Interview with scientist Stephen Schneider on his "Expert Credibility in Climate Change" study
• 2010/07/12: CSW: Interview with Stephen Schneider on climate science expert credibility study

  And on the Bottom Line:

• 2010/07/16: PlanetArk: Analysis: New U.N. Body To Put Value On Planet
  The world relies on a range of services nature provides -- water filtration by forests, pollination by bees and a supply of wild plant genes for new food crops or medicines. If nature charged for these, how much would it cost? Most such values are excluded from measures of national economies and from prices and markets which would force businesses and governments to recognize them, and the result has been a bias toward development over conservation. U.N. states have proposed a new body, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), to advise on valuing nature and conservation targets. An early priority should be measurement, said Pavan Sukhdev, study leader for The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) U.N. initiative, which published a business and biodiversity report this week.
• 2010/07/13: SolveClimate: Ecosystems Make Dollars and Sense for Business -- New [TEEB] report tallies free services, cost benefits supplied by healthy wetlands and forests
• 2010/07/13: TerraDaily: Ecosystem damage to show true cost of Gulf spill: expert
• 2010/07/13: ABC(Au): UN puts price on biodiversity loss
• 2010/07/13: PlanetArk: U.N. Urges New Resource Accounting, Cites BP Spill
• 2010/07/13: TreeHugger: Businesses & Consumers Just Beginning to Recognize Economic Cost of Biodiversity Loss
• 2010/07/12: ClimateShifts: A climate storm for investors

  Who's getting the subsidies?

• 2010/07/15: BRitholtz: Subsidizing Fossil Fuels: $72 billion (vs $29 billion)
• 2010/07/14: ClimateP: Big Giveaways To Big Oil
  NYT: "An examination of the American tax code indicates that oil production is among the most heavily subsidized businesses."
• 2010/07/12: GG&G: Who really benefits from agricultural subsidies?

  The IEA & UNEP report that more than half of all new electricity capacity added in the United States and Europe last year was from renewables:

• 2010/07/: UNEP: Global Trends in Green Energy 2009: New Power Capacity from Renewable Sources Tops Fossil Fuels
• 2010/07/16: EurActiv: Renewables dominate new power in Europe, US
  More than half of all new electricity capacity added in the United States and Europe last year was from renewable power such as wind and solar, a body backed by the International Energy Agency and the UN reported.
• 2010/07/16: PeakEnergy: More than half new power in US, EU is green: study
• 2010/07/15: G&M: Green electricity reaches 'tipping point'
  More invested for second year in a row in renewable power generation in U.S., Europe than in conventional plants
• 2010/07/15: BBC: Renewables see 'resilient growth' in 2009
  The building of new renewable energy sources continued to outstrip new fossil fuel power plants in Europe and the US during 2009, a report [by REN21] has shown. The UN-backed study said renewables accounted for 60% of new electricity generation capacity in Europe. And in the US, green electricity accounted for more than half of the generation capacity built last year.
• 2010/07/13: BBerg: China Surges Past U.S., Europe in Financing for Clean-Energy Technologies

  TVMOB 'replied' to Abraham with 446 questions which triggered great hilarity in the blogosphere:

• 2010/07/15: ERabett: Gold amongst the dross ... or the Great Monckton Memory hole
• 2010/07/15: ERabett: The Great Monckton Limerick Contest
• 2010/07/15: Deltoid: Why is Monckton afraid of a debate with Abraham?
• 2010/07/14: Guardian(UK): Monckton's response to John Abraham is magnificently bonkers
  Monckton fails to provide a convincing refutation of Abraham's criticisms but does throw a great deal of dust into the air
• 2010/07/14: ERabett: Eli Rabett's Chris Monckton Limerick Contest
• 2010/07/13: ERabett: Scrotum sends Gareth to guest -- From the comments an answer to Christopher Monckton's
• 2010/07/13: TCoE: Monckton responds; hilarity ensues
• 2010/07/13: GreenFyre: Lords a'leaping
• 2010/07/13: DeSmogBlog: Monckton exposes his rebuttal: So much blather; so little substance
• 2010/07/14: HotTopic: Monckton: still digging for failure
• 2010/07/13: Deltoid: I think that they might have to rename it the Monckton gallop
• 2010/07/12: ERabett: This is where Eli came in -- Viscount Monckton is busy jumping the shark, having been bitten by John Abraham...
• 2010/07/12: Stoat: Monkton shumps the jark

  Then things got nasty:

• 2010/07/15: MoD: Prawngate: Monckton tries to censor critics
• 2010/07/18: SMandia: Turn the Tables on Monckton
• 2010/07/16: SkeptiSci: Facebook page to support John Abraham
• 2010/07/16: ERabett: A humble suggestion - support the University of St. Thomas
• 2010/07/15: CCP: Monckton's attack on John Abraham is nothing short of depraved!!! -- Monckton's response to John Abraham is magnificently bonkers
• 2010/07/15: CCP: Hate-speech promoter Lord Monckton tries to censor John Abraham
• 2010/07/15: S&R: Climate disruption denier Monckton responds to detailed scientific rebuttal with attempted intimidation
• 2010/07/15: HotTopic: Support John Abraham
• 2010/07/15: AGWObserver: Go to Hot Topic and...
• 2010/07/15: ClassM: Support honesty in the climate wars
• 2010/07/15: IJISH: (Digression) Support Prof. Abraham, oppose climate 'skeptic' Monckton's attempt at mob politics!
• 2010/07/14: TCoE: Monckton and Abraham: Now it gets ugly
• 2010/07/15: CCP: Fight back against the Climate Denial Machine and Potty Peer Monckton's attempt to censor John Abraham
• 2010/07/15: ClimateP: Hate-speech promoter [TVMOB] Monckton tries to censor John Abraham
• 2010/07/15: SkeptiSci: Monckton tries to censor John Abraham
• 2010/07/14: ClimateShifts: Monckton responds to Abraham in the predictable way
• 2010/07/15: Stoat: Support John Abraham at ht
• 2010/07/14: MTobis: Monckton Urges Harrassment of Abraham
• 2010/07/14: HotTopic: Support John Abraham

  The abuse of climate scientists is an ongoing problem:

• 2010/07/15: CCP: Guardian slams Morano for cyber-bullying and for urging violence against climate scientists
• 2010/07/15: ClimateP: UK Guardian slams Morano for cyber-bullying and for urging violence against climate scientists
• 2010/07/15: ABC(Au): Climate scientists 'the Darwin of our times'
  Climate change scientists are facing the same hostility and scorn as Charles Darwin, argues Australian-based scriptwriter John Collee.

The complicity of the media in whipping up faux scandals is somehow rarely mentioned in the media:

• 2010/07/10: ChronicleHerald: The real Climategate scandal -- Controversies over credibility of climate science have been intentionally contrived
• 2010/07/17: MoD: Journalismgate
• 2010/07/14: DeSmogBlog: Hard for [Clive] Crook to Climb Down on ClimateGate
• 2010/07/11: MediaMatters: Kurtz: "Why has Glenn Beck ... not revisited" CRU emails controversy following scientist's exoneration?
• 2010/07/13: MTobis: Columbia Journalism Review Gets It
• 2010/07/12: DeSmogBlog: NY Times 'Climategate' Editorial A Reminder That Media Have Failed Miserably Covering Climate Science
• 2010/07/12: MTobis: WSJ Letter-Writing Campaign
• 2010/07/11: ClimateP: New York Times to media: Exonerations of climate science and National Academy report should "receive as much circulation" as "the manufactured controversy known as Climategate"
• 2010/07/12: TWM: Is that a rhetorical question?...

  Post CRU theft, controversy & inquiries:

• 2010/07/15: Deltoid: Report from the Guardian Debate on 'Climategate'
• 2010/07/15: MTobis: Climategate and Guantanamo
• 2010/07/15: Guardian(UK): UEA's delayed response to climate emails caused by shock, says professor
• 2010/07/14: NewScientist: Climate scientists respond to 'climategate' report
• 2010/07/14: OpenDem: After climategate: forward to reality
  A series of careful reports into the leaked emails of climate scientists provides a consistent account of the "climategate" saga. This allows a welcome refocus on the problems of climate change and the role of the IPCC, says Ãyvind Paasche.
• 2010/07/13: IJISH: Sommer's input agrees with my SwiftHack diagram; and, working around the broken mainstream media
• 2010/07/11: TWM: With 'climategate' having come and gone...
• 2010/07/11: ClimateSight: So What Happened with ClimateGate?
• 2010/07/11: MTobis: The Three Real Scandals about the Fake One

  Late comment on Pepsigate:

• 2010/07/12: Stoat: Pepsigate

  The Arctic melt continues to garner a lot of attention:

• 2010/07/17: ERabett: We're alright, Jack
• 2010/07/16: ASI: Sea ice extent update 16: back to the 30's (again)
• 2010/07/16: SkeptiSci: Part Three: Response to Goddard by Robert Way
• 2010/07/15: SkeptiSci: Part Two: How do we measure Antarctic ice changes? by Robert Way
• 2010/07/14: SkeptiSci: Part One: How do ice sheets lose ice? by Robert Way
• 2010/07/15: CBC: Iceberg Alley is iceberg free
  The ocean along Newfoundland's northeast coast is usually dotted with icebergs at this time of summer, but there are none in sight. Tour operators in Twillingate, a town that promotes itself as the iceberg-watching capital of the East Coast, have been forced to shift their focus to whales and rocky coasts to entice tourists out onto the water.
• 2010/07/15: ASI: Cloudy interlude
• 2010/07/14: DWWSJ: Ice Core at NEEM Approaching Greenland Bedrock
• 2010/07/14: MongaBay: Arctic ice hits lowest record for June
• 2010/07/13: NatureTGB: The Bering Sea Project: Benthic Nirvana, marine snow, and the end of the voyage
• 2010/07/14: NatureTGB: Arctic ice's disappearing act
• 2010/07/13: CCP: Will the Northwest Passage be open in July 2010?
• 2010/07/13: ASI: Sea ice extent update 15: improving ever so slightly
• 2010/07/13: CCP: On the nature of winter cooling and the recent temperature shift on the northern Gulf of Alaska shelf, JGR 115, M. A. Janout, T. J. Weingartner, T. C. Royer & S. L. Danielson
• 2010/07/13: CanWest: Arctic sea ice melting faster than ever
  Retreat forecast for 2010. On pace to shrink more than in 2007 when scientists raised climate alarm Arctic Ocean sea ice melted faster in June than in any previous June since satellite measurements began 30 years ago, continuing a pattern that could see a record retreat by summer's end, North America's main ice-monitoring centre [the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Centre] says.
• 2010/07/12: ClassM: Obsessing over ice cover
• 2010/07/12: NatureTGB: The Bering Sea Project: The importance of zooplankton, alien-like and otherwise

  A large chunk of Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier broke off this week:

• 2010/07/14: CBC: Greenland iceberg could be Canada-bound
  A giant chunk of ice that has broken from a glacier off Greenland's west coast could end up in Canada's eastern waters. An iceberg about seven square kilometres in size -- about one-eighth the size of New York's Manhattan Island -- broke off Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier in the overnight hours between July 6 and 7, according to NASA-funded researchers.
• 2010/07/14: TCoE: Fracking Greenland
• 2010/07/13: PhysOrg: Researchers witness overnight breakup, retreat of Greenland glacier
• 2010/07/12: CCP: Jakobshavn Isbræ floating tongue -- July 2010
• 2010/07/12: ASI: Animation 7: Jakobshavn Isbræ
• 2010/07/12: TreeHugger: Greenland Glacier Retreats One Mile Overnight! NASA Shows Satellite Photos
• 2010/07/10: NASA: Researchers Witness Overnight Breakup, Retreat of Greenland Glacier
• 2010/07/12: Eureka: Researchers witness overnight breakup, retreat of Greenland glacier
• 2010/07/12: CSM: Huge chunk of ice breaks off of glacier in Greenland
• 2010/07/11: ASI: What's happening here?

  The food crisis is ongoing:

• 2010/07/16: DemNow: The Food Bubble: How Wall Street Starved Millions and Got Away With It
• 2010/07/14: Google:AP: Wheat prices surge on global weather problems
• 2010/07/14: PhysOrg: Massive mice, locust plagues threaten Australian crops
• 2010/07/13: NJN: U.S. agriculture could be disrupted by climate change
• 2010/07/13: Reuters: Climate-related farmer suicides surging in eastern Kenya
• 2010/07/12: AllAfrica: SW Radio: Zimbabwe: Food Violence Blamed for Child Malnourishment
  ZANU PF supporters are continuing to withhold food aid donations from hungry villagers who refuse to join the party, at a time when a third of children under five in the country have been officially declared as malnourished. This is according to the civic group, the Zimbabwe Peace Project, which says that hungry villagers are still being told to first join ZANU PF first if they want to receive food donated by food agencies.
• 2010/07/12: PlanetArk: U.S. Farmers Can't Meet Booming Corn Demands
• 2010/07/11: DM:SRK: The Forecasted Collapse of a Fishery
• 2010/07/12: BWeek: Russia Drought Hurts Half of Grains in Stricken Areas
  Russia's worst drought in a decade has damaged more than half of grain planted in 11 regions and hot, dry weather may continue for the rest of this month, a meteorologist said.
• 2010/07/01: Economist: Rust in the bread basket -- A crop-killing fungus [Ug99] is spreading out of Africa towards the world's great wheat-growing areas

  The conflict between biofuel and food persists:

• 2010/07/14: EUO: NGOs slam EU-Brazil plans to develop biofuels in Africa
  EU and Brazilian leaders are set to announce a new "triangular co-operation" initiative, under which they will aim to work together in some of the world's poorest countries, but NGOs say the duo's scheme is self-centred and will simply make conditions worse.

So, are these land grabs Colonialism V2.0?

• 2010/07/12: CCurrents: After Ruining Punjab's Agriculture; Punjab Farmers Now Aim At Africa

  Look out! the IP Rentiers are coming!

• 2010/07/15: Rabble: Monsanto 'charity' comes to Haitian farmers
  The agrichemical giant is donating tons of "terminator gene" corn and vegetable seeds, sowing future dependence on them for farmers needing replacement seeds, fertilizers and pesticides every year.
• 2010/07/14: EurActiv: EU GMO proposals draw widespread criticism
  EU member states will be able to ban GMO cultivation on their territory under new proposals tabled yesterday (13 July), but will need the EU institutions' approval to act if their decision is not based on scientific evidence.

And how are we going to feed 9 billion?

• 2010/07/17: SolveClimate: Produce to the People -- Urban farms are taking off and root in a growing number of U.S. cities
• 2010/07/15: UN: UN rural development arm [IFAD] helping respond to Niger food crisis
• 2010/07/15: ABC(Au): Scientists to track locust plague from sky -- Scientists are developing radar and optical technology to track locust movements
• 2010/07/14: EnergyBulletin: The 50-year farm bill
• 2010/07/14: Grist: Raids are increasing on farms and private food-supply clubs -- here are 5 tips for surviving one
• 2010/07/13: PhysOrg: Fungi's genetic sabotage in wheat discovered
  Using molecular techniques, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and collaborating scientists have shown how the subversion of a single gene in wheat by two fungal foes triggers a kind of cellular suicide in the grain crop's leaves.
• 2010/07/13: BBC: 'Red hot' chillies arrive at frozen seed vault
  Seeds from some of North America's hottest food crops have arrived on the Arctic Archipelago of Svalbard to be stored in a "doomsday vault".
• 2010/07/06: AlterNet: Meet the Food Industry Front Groups That Push for Carcinogens in Your Food

  Typhoon Conson zapped the Philippines, Hainan Island and then Vietnam:

• 2010/07/17: TerraDaily: At least 67 dead as Typhoon Conson calms in China
• 2010/07/18: EarthTimes: Typhoon [Conson] death toll rises to 68 in Philippines
• 2010/07/18: EarthTimes: Typhoon [Conson] leaves 1 dead, 11 missing in Vietnam
• 2010/07/17: BBC: Tropical storm Conson hits northern Vietnam
  A tropical storm has made landfall in northern Vietnam, bringing heavy rains and high winds.
• 2010/07/17: CBC: China Typhoon Conson weakens -- Downgraded to tropical storm, moving toward Vietnam
• 2010/07/17: EarthTimes: Fatalities increase in Philippine typhoon [Conson]: 65 dead, 87 missing
• 2010/07/17: EarthTimes: Vietnam braces for Typhoon Conson
• 2010/07/17: RawStory: At least 67 dead as Typhoon Conson weakens in China
• 2010/07/16: CNN: Typhoon Conson strikes China
  Typhoon Conson has made landfall in China - Coming rain could exacerbate flooding - Thirty-nine people reportedly have died from the storm's march through the Philippines - Conson is predicted to strike Vietnam on Saturday
• 2010/07/16: BBC: Typhoon Conson hits southern China
• 2010/07/15: EarthTimes: Death toll in Philippine typhoon rises to 33
• 2010/07/15: Eureka: High pressure forcing Tropical Storm Conson farther south to Hainan Island
• 2010/07/14: Wunderground: Typhoon Conson kills 18 in the Philippines; record SSTs continue in the Atlantic
• 2010/07/14: EarthTimes: At least 21 dead as Typhoon Conson batters Philippines
• 2010/07/14: ENS: First Philippines Typhoon of 2010 Proves Deadly
• 2010/07/14: Eureka: NASA's Aqua Satellite sees Tropical Storm Conson now in South China Sea
• 2010/07/13: Eureka: NASA's 3-D animation of Typhoon Conson's heavy rainfall and strong thunderstorms
• 2010/07/13: Eureka: Tropical Storm Conson sweeping through the Northern Philippines
• 2010/07/14: CNN: 18 dead, 57 missing after Tropical Storm Conson rakes Philippines
  Tropical Storm Conson has weakened slightly - Storm is back over South China Sea - Philippines recovering; houses are damaged, power is out in many areas - Most roads and bridges are passable
• 2010/07/13: EarthTimes: Hundreds of passengers stranded as typhoon [Conson] pummels Philippines
• 2010/07/12: Eureka: Tropical Storm Conson forms in northwestern Pacific

  While elsewhere in the hurricane wars:

• 2010/07/16: Eureka: Once a depression, 6E now a remnant, NASA imagery shows little strength left
• 2010/07/14: SpaceDaily: GOES Brings Hurricane Alley Live To The Wireless
• 2010/07/15: Eureka: Tropical Depression 6-E forms from System 96E, struggling in wind shear
• 2010/07/15: Eureka: Hurricane Katrina's effects on children: Resilience and gender
• 2010/07/14: Eureka: The GOES-11 Satellite sees System 96E getting tropically organized
• 2010/07/13: Eureka: NASA releases GOES-13 satellite movie of the life and times of Hurricane Alex
• 2010/07/13: DM:CCM: The Super-Hot Atlantic
• 2010/07/11: NewScientist: Law of hurricane power discovered
• 2010/07/12: NatureN: Typhoons carry carbon out to sea -- Tropical cyclones have a previously unsuspected role in the carbon cycle
• 2010/07/12: Wunderground: More pre-season predictions of a very active Atlantic hurricane season
• 2010/07/11: Eureka: Surprisingly regular patterns in hurricane energy discovered -- Research suggests that hurricane forecasts on intensity could never be feasible

  As for GHGs:

• 2010/07/14: GreenGrok: Our Cup Runneth Over: U.S. Emissions Are Looking Up
• 2010/07/16: TreeHugger: China's Carbon Emissions Need to Peak by 2020 for World to Meet Global Reduction Goals: IEA
• 2010/07/13: CEC: Online release of North American industrial pollution data reveals significant reporting gaps

  And in the nitrogen cycle:

• 2010/07/15: SciDaily: Fungi's Role in the Cycle of Life Discovered

  As for the temperature record:

• 2010/07/18: PlanetJ: Mid-Year Update on Global Temperatures
• 2010/07/17: SMH: Global temperatures rise to record levels
• 2010/07/16: Guardian(UK): Last month was the hottest June recorded worldwide, figures show
• 2010/07/15: NOAANews: June, April to June, and Year-to-Date Global Temperatures are Warmest on Record
• 2010/07/16: ABC(Au): Figures show hottest June on record
• 2010/07/15: ClimateP: NOAA: June is fourth month in a row of record global temperatures, first half of 2010 also on record pace
• 2010/07/16: ScienceInsider: Official Reminder: A Hotter Millennium Is a Bad Thing
• 2010/07/15: TerraDaily: June Earth's hottest ever: US monitors
• 2010/07/16: Wunderground: June 2010 the globe's 4th consecutive warmest month on record
• 2010/07/15: DWWSJ: NOAA: First 6 Months of 2010- Hottest On Record
• 2010/07/14: MTobis: And Still Going
• 2010/07/15: SolveClimate: Hottest June Ever in Global Record, NOAA Says
• 2010/07/13: SkeptiSci: What's in a trend?
• 2010/07/12: WaPo:CC: First half of 2010 sets heat records

  While in the paleoclimate:

• 2010/07/17: RealClimate: Revisiting the Younger Dryas

  And in historical times:

• 2010/07/14: PhysOrg: China's wars, rebellions driven by climate: study

  While on the ENSO front:

• 2010/07/15: Wunderground: La Niña is here

  As for the State of the Oceans:

• 2010/07/15: DM:NERS: Bearded goby munches jellyfish, ignores toxic gases, is generally very hard
• 2010/07/15: SciAm: Scourge of the Jellies: Small Fish Shows How Ecosystems Adjust to Potentially Catastrophic Changes [Video]
  One fish--the bearded goby--has employed special adaptations to support an ecosystem challenged by overfishing, low-oxygen waters and even climate change
• 2010/07/16: OSU: Findings overturn old theory of phytoplankton growth, raise concerns for ocean productivity
• 2010/07/12: SkeptiSci: Must-read article on ocean impacts by ocean scientists
• 2010/07/12: ClimateShifts: It's not climate change, it's ocean change!
• 2010/07/09: NewsObs: In the oceans, the heat is really on -- It's not climate change, it's ocean change!

  More GW impacts are being seen:

• 2010/07/16: WorldChanging: Heat Waves and Energy Crunches: the Future is Now
• 2010/07/15: TMoS: Climate Change Hammers Russia
• 2010/07/14: TDC: Warming waters add new pressures to an ancient livelihood
• 2010/07/14: C-a-S: The (Unclear) Case for Climate Impacts
• 2010/07/12: IPSNews: Uruguay Fends Off Health Threats - So Far
  The incidence of cardiovascular, respiratory and water-borne diseases is rising in Uruguay in tandem with climate change, while dengue fever and malaria lurk at the country's borders. Higher temperatures are encouraging the presence of insect vectors carrying diseases that were eradicated decades ago, experts say.
• 2010/07/12: SciAm: Scientists Quantify Global Warming's Threat to Public Health
  From heat stress to sewage overflows, climate change promises to bring extreme weather that will challenge the ill-prepared U.S. public health infrastructure
• 2010/07/12: TreeHugger: Rising Temperatures Could Drastically Alter Yellowstone Meadow Ecosystems
• 2010/07/12: CBC: Salmon struggle in warmer Miramichi River -- Miramichi Salmon Association has reports of fish dying

  And then there are the world's forests:

• 2010/07/17: DVoice: US Timber Demand Threatens Uncontacted Peruvian Tribe
• 2010/07/15: ScienceInsider: Illegal Logging Has Dropped Dramatically --- Or Has It?
• 2010/07/15: MongaBay: Illegal logging declining worldwide, but still 'major problem'
• 2010/07/15: PlanetArk: World's Mangroves Retreating At Alarming Rate: Study
• 2010/07/15: NatureN: Illegal logging in decline -- Preventing illicit cutting is a cheap way to reduce carbon emissions
• 2010/07/15: Eureka: Report reveals dramatic decline in illegal logging in tropical forest nations
• 2010/07/15: TreeHugger: Good News-Bad News: Illegal Logging Declining - But Still a Huge Problem, New Report Says
• 2010/07/15: BBC: Major decline seen in illegal logging
  Illegal logging in the world's forests has fallen by nearly a quarter since 2002, according to what claims to be the most thorough analysis yet. The London-based thinktank Chatham House says consumer pressure, legal restrictions by importing countries and media attention have all contributed.
• 2010/07/14: UN: Mangrove loss outpacing destruction of land-based forests, UN reports
• 2010/07/13: MongaBay: Large-scale forest destruction in Sumatra undermines Indonesia's deal with Norway
• 2010/07/14: CPositive: World watches Indonesia forest deal
• 2010/07/14: CaribbeanNN: Guyana and Norway establish REDD+ investment fund
• 2010/07/14: TreeHugger: Major Asian Paper Corps Undermine Indonesia's Carbon Emission Reduction Commitments
• 2010/07/14: TreeHugger: World's Mangroves Being Destroyed Four Times Faster Than Other Forests
• 2010/07/13: NASA:JPL: Study Finds [2005] Amazon Storm Killed Half a Billion Trees
• 2010/07/12: AGU: Staggering tree loss from 2005 Amazon storm
  A single, huge, violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees, a new study shows

Yes we have no wacky weather, except:

• 2010/07/17: EarthTimes: Storms claim one life in Czech Republic
• 2010/07/15: EarthTimes: Summer storm kills three in western Europe
• 2010/07/15: PhiladelphiaInquirer: Storms woes include rescues, flooded roads, tornado

  The German island Duene got zapped by a tornado:

• 2010/07/12: BBC: Eight injured as German tornado hits North Sea island [Duene, off the coast of the larger island Heligoland]

  As for heatwaves and wild fires:

• 2010/07/16: TerraDaily: Russia swelters amid drownings and drought
• 2010/07/17: EarthTimes: Homes, camps evacuated as forest fires rage in Greece
• 2010/07/17: CBC: Heat alert issued for Fredericton
• 2010/07/17: CBS: U.S. Wilting Under Humid Heat Wave
• 2010/07/17: EarthTimes: Homes and holiday camps evacuated as forest fires blaze in Greece
• 2010/07/16: Reuters: Russia swelters in heatwave, many crops destroyed
  Soaring temperatures across large swathes of Russia have destroyed nearly 10 million hectares of crops and prompted a state of emergency to be declared in 17 regions.
• 2010/07/17: CBC: Russian heat wave kills fish, crops
• 2010/07/16: LA Times: Heat wave bakes inland parts of Southern California
  Thunderstorms ignite numerous brush fires and cause flashfloods while many areas endure triple-digit temperatures and high humidity.
• 2010/07/16: Google:AFP: Italy sweltering in major heatwave
• 2010/07/16: CBC: Russia swelters in crop-scorching heat wave
  State of emergency extended as hot, dry weather causes forest fires and drought The worst heat wave since the Stalin era has thrown Russia into turmoil, with droughts devastating millions of hectares of crops and a state of emergency declared in 19 regions.
• 2010/07/15: CNN: Rash of drownings [1000+] as Russians attempt to escape heat
  Two children among those who drowned this week - Alcohol is thought to have played a role in many drownings - Russia is sweltering under historic heat wave
• 2010/07/15: LA Times: Southern California heat wave prompts fire, health warnings
  With high temperatures expected to last through the weekend, fire officials are on edge and health officials caution residents to guard against prolonged exposure to the sun.
• 2010/07/15: BWeek: Heat Wave in U.S. Driving Coal to 18-Month High: Energy Markets
• 2010/07/13: CNN: Three wildfires burn through Southern California
  There are no reports of injuries - Some homes are under threat in Camarillo, fire official says - Residents were evacuated in Walnut, fire department says - Camp Pendleton fire officials expect to contain that blaze by Wednesday
• 2010/07/13: BWeek: Russia Urges Siesta Regime for Workers Amid Record Heat Wave
• 2010/07/13: MoscowNews: Moscow heat claims more victims
• 2010/07/13: CBC: Okanagan fire continues to burn -- Fire risk rising across British Columbia
• 2010/07/12: CBC: Okanagan fire prompts state of emergency
  Police closed Highway 97 on either side of the junction with Highway 97C (the Okanagan Connector) because of the fire. Police closed Highway 97 on either side of the junction with Highway 97C (the Okanagan Connector) because of the fire. (Jackie Sharkey/CBC)A state of emergency has been declared near B.C.'s Okanagan Lake after 60 people were forced to flee in boats when a wildfire overran a resort on the shores of the lake Monday morning. The state of emergency was declared by both the District of Peachland and the District of West Kelowna just after noon on Monday.
• 2010/07/11: TerraDaily: German trains evacuated due to scorching heat: company
• 2010/07/12: BWeek: Russia Drought Hurts Half of Grains in Stricken Areas
  Russia's worst drought in a decade has damaged more than half of grain planted in 11 regions and hot, dry weather may continue for the rest of this month, a meteorologist said.
• 2010/07/12: DerSpiegel: Heatwave Grips Europe -- Germany Swelters Amid Soaring Temperatures
  More than 40 train passengers needed medical treatment for dehydration in Germany this weekend after the air conditioning broke down. The railway apologized for the fault which affected several of its high-speed ICE trains as Europe gasped under temperatures approaching 40 degrees Celsius.
• 2010/07/12: TheNews(Pl): Heatwave sweeps across Poland
• 2010/07/10: Guardian(UK): UK heatwave may have caused hundreds of deaths -- Fears for elderly and vulnerable as sharp rise in fatalities is linked to hot weather
• 2010/07/12: AlbuquerqueExpress: Heatwave in Europe takes its toll
• 2010/07/11: CBC: 60 new wildfires hit B.C.

  Corals are dying:

• 2010/07/15: WHOI: Global Warming Slows Coral Growth in Red Sea
• 2010/07/16: BBC: Red Sea coral growth 'to halt by 2070'
  A species of coral in the Red Sea [diploastrea heliopara ] could stop growing by 2070 if current warming trends continue, say scientists. A team of US researchers, using 3D technology, said that the rate of growth of Diploastrea heliopara had declined by 30% since 1998.

Acidification is changing the oceans:

• 2010/07/12: NOAANews: Scientists Find Rising Carbon Dioxide and 'Acidified' Waters in Puget Sound

  Glaciers are melting:

• 2010/07/18: PeakEnergy: Tracking the Himalaya's Melting Glaciers
• 2010/07/14: UNDispatch: Will Climate Change Cause Bhutan's Glacial Lakes to Burst? (Video)
• 2010/07/17: DWWSJ: The Big One Itself is Now Melting- Amazing Pics [Himalaya pix]
• 2010/07/14: USGS: Footloose Glaciers Crack Up
• 2010/07/17: TreeHugger: Then and Now Photographs Document Stunning Melting of Himalayan Glaciers
• 2010/07/16: PhysOrg: Photos 'show Himalayan glaciers receding'
  Comparing precisely matched photographs, [David] Breashears determined that the Rongbuk [glacier] had dropped some 320 feet in depth
• 2010/07/16: SpaceDaily: Footloose Glaciers Crack Up
• 2010/07/16: CSM: Alaskan [Columbia] glacier detaches itself from seafloor, goes rogue
• 2010/07/16: BBC: Comparative photos of Mount Everest 'confirm ice loss'
  Photos taken by a mountaineer on Everest from the same spot where similar pictures were taken in 1921 have revealed an "alarming" ice loss. The Asia Society (AS) arranged for the pictures to be taken in exactly the same place where British climber George Mallory took photos in 1921. "The photographs reveal a startling truth: the ice of the Himalaya is disappearing," an AS statement said. "They reveal an alarming loss in ice mass over an 89-year period."
• 2010/07/15: DemNow: Himalayan Glaciers Melting Faster Than Anywhere Else in World; Impact Could Devastate Over 1 Billion People
• 2010/07/14: Scripps: Footloose Glaciers Crack Up -- New detailed observations of what happens when glaciers float on ocean surface

  Sea levels are rising:

• 2010/07/16: WiredSci: Sea-Level Rise Will Be Worse for Some, We Just Don't Know Who
• 2010/07/15: PlanetArk: Indian Ocean Sea Level Rise Threatens Millions
• 2010/07/14: Reuters: Indian Ocean sea level rise threatens millions -study
• 2010/07/14: Eureka: Indian Ocean sea-level rise threatens coastal areas -- Rise is especially high along coastlines of Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea, as well as Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java
• 2010/07/14: Reuters: Indian Ocean sea level rise threatens millions
  Sea levels are rising unevenly in the Indian Ocean, placing millions at risk along low-lying coastlines in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, scientists say in a study.
• 2010/07/13: PlanetArk: Rising Sea Drives Panama Islanders To Mainland
• 2010/07/13: TreeHugger: Sea Level Rise Forces Panama Islanders to Relocate
• 2010/07/13: Eureka: Sea levels rising in parts of Indian Ocean, according to new study -- Greenhouse gases are playing a role in changes, say scientists
• 2010/07/12: IrishTimes: Global warming presents itself as Kenyan city's fiercest foe...one urban zone is set to be swamped by rising sea
• 2010/07/12: Reuters: Rising sea drives Panama islanders to mainland
  Rising seas from global warming, coming after years of coral reef destruction, are forcing thousands of indigenous Panamanians to leave their ancestral homes on low-lying Caribbean islands.

As for hydrological cycle disruptions [floods & droughts]:

• 2010/07/16: TerraDaily: At least eight dead as heavy rains lash Japan
• 2010/07/16: TerraDaily: 146 dead in China rainstorms and floods: state media
• 2010/07/16: EarthTimes: Flood death toll hits 26 in Yemen
• 2010/07/16: NOAANews: NOAA Predicts Drought Conditions in Southwest U.S. to Worsen
• 2010/07/15: TerraDaily: China faces worst floods in 12 years
• 2010/07/16: EarthTimes: Heavy rains in Japan leave 7 dead, 6 missing
• 2010/07/15: DarkMountain: The drowned world [UK]
• 2010/07/14: TerraDaily: China Landslides, Floods Claim Hundreds
• 2010/07/14: SeedDaily: Salty water, parched earth: Vietnam's Mekong paddies dry up
• 2010/07/15: EarthTimes: China fears 'massive flooding' as death toll hits 600
• 2010/07/14: BWeek: Dry, hot conditions put Virginia in drought watch
• 2010/07/15: VOA: China Faces Worst Flooding in 12 years
• 2010/07/15: SIFY: Flood situation grim in Punjab's Mansa district
• 2010/07/14: EarthTimes: Thousands more evacuated, dykes blasted as China battles floods
• 2010/07/14: NEP: Drought ravages local [Amherst and Nelson, Virginia, counties] farms
• 2010/07/14: CBC: China floods prompt evacuations
  Workers raced to build waterways to drain overflowing reservoirs in southeastern China and thousands were evacuated following torrential rains that triggered flash floods Wednesday. Heavy rains overwhelmed three reservoirs in Poyang county in northern Jiangxi province, forcing the evacuation of more than 10,000 people, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. Torrential storms have pelted the Yangtze River basin this week -- including parts of Sichuan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces. In western China, the death toll from landslides triggered by heavy rains rose to 37, with another 37 people still missing, Xinhua reported.
• 2010/07/13: EarthTimes: Flash floods leave 22 dead, 38 missing in south-west China
• 2010/07/13: EarthTimes: 12 killed as heavy rains lash New Delhi
• 2010/07/13: EarthTimes: Flash flood leaves 59 dead or missing in south-west China
• 2010/07/13: LubbockOnline: Rains cause nearly $4M in damages
  Early numbers suggest flood damage in Lubbock County will easily total more than $3.8 million, based on work by the county's emergency management coordinator.
• 2010/07/13: Google:AFP: Drought-hit Vietnamese capital hit by floods
• 2010/07/13: BWeek: Russia Aims to Prevent Slaughter of Cattle as Drought Worsens
• 2010/07/12: EarthTimes: China evacuates 755,000 amid new flood misery

  Elsewhere on the mitigation front:

• 2010/07/15: TreeHugger: Killing Millions of Gassy Animals Could Really Cut Carbon, Study Says
• 2010/07/14: KSJT: NYTimes: Making cows burp like kangaroos. Methane problem solved?
• 2010/07/13: AlterNet: Air-Conditioning Is Terrible for the Earth -- Here's How to Live Without It

  Consider transportation & GHG production:

• 2010/07/17: TreeHugger: Trend Watch: Unpaving Rural America "Back To The Stone Age"
• 2010/07/18: PeakEnergy: Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement
• 2010/07/16: DerSpiegel: Hefty Hike -- Protest in Germany over New Flight Tax
  Both politicians and airlines in Germany are up in arms at a new flight tax Chancellor Merkel's government wants to impose beginning next year. Berlin's budget could use the money, but some in Merkel's own coalition say the levy is unfair.
• 2010/07/15: DerSpiegel: Flying Green -- Aviation Industry Harnesses Algae for Biofuel
  There are plans within the aviation industry to replace kerosene with biofuel derived from algae. The new fuel comes with a surprising benefit: Planes will be able to fly farther on the same amount of fuel.
• 2010/07/15: NYT:AP: Germany to Levy Up to $33 Per Flight
• 2010/07/13: AutoBG: Study: Cheap gas will hamper success of electric vehicles in U.S.
• 2010/07/12: AutoBG: The changing politics of climate change, and how they could hurt green cars

  While in the endless quest for zero energy, sustainable buildings and practical codes:

• 2010/07/15: TruroDaily: Brookfield cement plant to be a leader in green technology
  A pilot project announced today by Premier Darrell Dexter will see the Lafarge cement plant become the first in North America to produce a lower-carbon cement.
• 2010/07/16: BR: Tecnalia investigates ecological cement that cuts CO2 emissions by up to 100%

  As for carbon sequestration:

• 2010/07/16: CharlestonGazette: Carbon capture facing numerous hurdles
  Technology to capture greenhouse emissions from coal-fired power plants might be commercially deployable within 10 to 15 years, but faces serious concerns about cost, legal liability and the lack of a national policy mandating carbon dioxide reductions, according to a [GAO] new congressional audit released Friday.
• 2010/07/16: PlanetArk: Scientists Create Improved CO2-Absorbing Crystals [metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)]
• 2010/07/14: SciDaily: Record-Breaking Carbon Dioxide Storage Capacity Enhances Ability to Capture CO2
  Chemists from UCLA and South Korea report the "ultimate porosity of a nano-material," achieving world records for both porosity and carbon dioxide storage capacity in an important class of materials known as MOFs, or metal-organic frameworks.
• 2010/07/14: Reuters: German CO2 storage bill arises from political ashes
• 2010/07/14: ABC(Au): Study shows outback soaking up CO2
  Australia's vast outback is remote and arid, but the expansive landscape could also play a cheap and effective role in the Federal Government's climate change solution.
• 2010/07/14: SMH: Out back, opportunities beckon to reduce effect of carbon
• 2010/07/14: Eureka: Steam process could remove CO2 to regenerate amine capture materials -- Carbon sequestration
  Because they can remove carbon dioxide from the flue gases of coal-burning facilities such as power plants, solid materials containing amines are being extensively studied as part of potential CO2 sequestration programs designed to reduce the impact of the greenhouse gas. But although these adsorbent materials do a good job of trapping the carbon dioxide, commonly-used techniques for separating the CO2 from the amine materials -- thereby regenerating them for re-use -- seem unlikely to be suitable for high-volume industrial applications.
• 2010/07/12: Reuters: S.Korea to invest $2 bln in carbon capture to 2019

  Large scale geo-engineering keeps popping up:

• 2010/07/14: CBC: Calgary hail shrunk by cloud-seeding planes -- Insurance companies hire weather modification company to minimize damage

  Meanwhile in the journals:

• 2010/07/13: NERC:NORA: The energy and water balance of a Eucalyptus plantation in southeast Brazil by Osvaldo M.R Cabral et al.
• 2010/07/15: NERC:NORA: Multicomponent seismic monitoring of CO2 gas cloud in the Utsira Sand : a feasibility study : Saline Aquifer Co2 Storage Phase 2 (SACS2) : Work Area 5 (Geophysics) : feasibility of multicomponent seismic acquisition by Enru Liu et al.
• 2010/07/16: ACP: Estimation of Antarctic ozone loss from ground-based total column measurements by J. Kuttippurath et al.
• 2010/07/16: ACP: Tropospheric ozone variations at the Nepal Climate Observatory-Pyramid (Himalayas, 5079 m a.s.l.) and influence of deep stratospheric intrusion events by P. Cristofanelli et al.
• 2010/07/16: ACP: A comparison of ship and satellite measurements of cloud properties with global climate model simulations in the southeast Pacific stratus deck by M. A. Brunke et al.
• 2010/07/16: ACP: Satellite observations of long range transport of a large BrO plume in the Arctic by M. Begoin et al.
• 2010/07/16: ACP: Bromine measurements in ozone depleted air over the Arctic Ocean by J. A. Neuman et al.
• 2010/07/16: ACP: A multi-decadal history of biomass burning plume heights identified using aerosol index measurements by H. Guan et al.
• 2010/07/16: ACPD: Attribution of observed changes in stratospheric ozone and temperature by N. P. Gillett et al.
• 2010/07/16: ACPD: Analysis of SAGE II ozone of the middle and upper stratosphere for its response to a decadal-scale forcing by E. Remsberg & G. Lingenfelser
• 2010/07/16: OS: Variability of heat and salinity content in the North Atlantic in the last decade by V. O. Ivchenko et al.
• 2010/07/16: TC: Time-lapse refraction seismic tomography for the detection of ground ice degradation by C. Hilbich
• 2010/07/15: TCD: Cryogenic and non-cryogenic pool calcites reflect alternating permafrost and interglacial periods (Breitscheid-Erdbach Cave, Germany) by D. K. Richter et al.
• 2010/07/14: TCD: Stand-alone single-frequency GPS ice velocity observations on Nordenskiöldbreen, Svalbard by M. A. G. den Ouden et al.
• 2010/07/13: TCD: Application of a minimal glacier model to Hansbreen, Spitsbergen by J. Oerlemans et al.
• 2010/07/16: CP: Interhemispheric coupling, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and warm Antarctic interglacials by P. B. Holden et al.
• 2010/07/16: CPD: Refugia of marine fish in the Northeast Atlantic during the Last Glacial Maximum: concordant assessment from archaeozoology and palaeotemperature reconstructions by A. J. Kettle et al.
• 2010/07/12: CPD: Uncertainty of the CO2 threshold for melting a hard Snowball Earth by Y. Hu & J. Yang
• 2010/04/: OSU:SA: (abs) Abandoning Sverdrup's critical depth hypothesis on phytoplankton blooms by Michael J. Behrenfeld
• 2010/06/15: GRL: (ab$) Record-low thermospheric density during the 2008 solar minimum by J. T. Emmert et al.
• 2010/07/14: ACP: Cluster analysis of midlatitude oceanic cloud regimes: mean properties and temperature sensitivity by N. D. Gordon & J. R. Norris
• 2010/07/14: ACP: Tropospheric aerosol size distributions simulated by three online global aerosol models using the M7 microphysics module by K. Zhang et al.
• 2010/07/14: ACP: Analysis of emission data from global commercial aviation: 2004 and 2006 J. T. Wilkerson et al.
• 2010/07/14: ACP: Comparison of a global-climate model to a cloud-system resolving model for the long-term response of thin stratocumulus clouds to preindustrial and present-day aerosol conditions by S. S. Lee & J. E. Penner
• 2010/07/13: ACP: Brown carbon in tar balls from smoldering biomass combustion by R. K. Chakrabarty et al.
• 2010/07/13: ACP: Modelling microphysical and meteorological controls on precipitation and cloud cellular structures in Southeast Pacific stratocumulus by H. Wang et al.
• 2010/07/13: ACP: Sulfur dioxide emissions in China and sulfur trends in East Asia since 2000 by Z. Lu et al.
• 2010/07/15: ACPD: Characteristics of CALIOP attenuated backscatter noise: implication for cloud/aerosol detection by D. L. Wu et al.
• 2010/07/14: ACPD: A sensitivity study on the effects of particle chemistry, asphericity and size on the mass extinction efficiency of mineral dust in the terrestrial atmosphere: from the near to thermal IR by R. A. Hansell et al.
• 2010/07/12: ACPD: Primary aerosol emission trends for China, 1990-2005 by Y. Lei et al.
• 2010/07/13: PNAS: Expert judgments about transient climate response to alternative future trajectories of radiative forcing by Kirsten Zickfeld et al.
• 2010/05/28: GRL: (ab$) On the nature of winter cooling and the recent temperature shift on the northern Gulf of Alaska shelf by Markus A. Janout et al.
• 2009/09/09: GRL: (ab$) An observationally based energy balance for the Earth since 1950 by D. M. Murphy et al.
• 2010/07/12: TCD: Permafrost and surface energy balance of a polygonal tundra site in northern Siberia - Part 1: Spring to fall by M. Langer et al.
• 2010/07/12: Nature:NatPhys: [LetterAb$] Scaling of tropical-cyclone dissipation by Ãlvaro Corral et al.

  And other significant documents:

• 2010/07/17: GAO: [link to 1 meg pdf] Coal Power Plants: Opportunities Exist for DOE to Provide Better Information on the Maturity of Key Technologies to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions
• 2010/07/14: CBO: [link to 4.1 meg pdf] Using Biofuel Tax Credits to Achieve Energy and Environmental Policy Goals
• 2010/07/15: UNEP: [link to pdf] Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2010 Report
• 2010/07/12: TCoE: Doc alert: [link to 2.4 meg pdf] Protecting the Lifeline of the West [water]

  As for miscellaneous science:

• 2010/07/17: TSoD: The Amazing Case of "Back-Radiation"
• 2010/07/16: NOAANews: NOAA, University of California San Diego Partner to Study Climate, Marine Ecosystems in New Cooperative Institute
• 2010/07/12: PhysOrg: Plant 'breathing' mechanism discovered
  A tiny, little-understood plant pore has enormous implications for weather forecasting, climate change, agriculture, hydrology, and more. A study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues from the Research Center Jülich in Germany, has now overturned the conventional belief about how these important structures called stomata regulate water vapor loss from the leaf-a process called transpiration. They found that radiation is the driving force of physical processes deep within the leaf.
• 2010/07/13: Grist: Ads aim to humanize climate scientists, but are they doing enough to make themselves more lovable?

  More DIY science:

• 2010/07/17: CC&G: Time Series Regression of Temperature Anomaly Data: 1 - Don't Use OLS

  Maureen Raymo spotlight:

• 2010/07/13: Grist: Spotlight: Maureen Raymo, Boston University -- Paleoclimatologist studies sea levels in a desert

  While at the UN:

• 2010/07/17: TreeHugger: IPCC Issues Clarification On Media Interaction
• 2010/07/15: UN: UN advisory group seeks to enhance public-private links to boost access to energy
• 2010/07/14: DeSmogBlog: IPCC Fumbles Media Relations Strategy, Must Review Basic Principles of Public Relations
• 2010/07/13: UN: Ban warns of costs of inaction on climate change

  And on the carbon trading front:

• 2010/07/16: PhysOrg: Carbon trading used as money-laundering front: experts
• 2010/07/16: EurActiv: Chinese firms cashing in on EU carbon trade
  European industries are subsidising direct competitors in China and India by buying international credits to offset their carbon dioxide emissions, an NGO said in a new report.
• 2010/07/15: EurActiv: EU agrees on carbon permit auction rules from 2013
• 2010/07/14: Guardian(UK): Rich countries to pay energy giants to build new coal-fired power plants
  UN's Clean Development Mechanism to use European carbon offset credits to subsidise 20 'efficient' coal plants in India and China

The proposed Bank Tax refuses to die:

• 2010/07/12: EurActiv: Germany, France push for financial transactions tax
  Germany and France have appealed to the Belgian EU Presidency to discuss the introduction of a financial transactions tax in the EU at an informal meeting of finance ministers in Brussels, which kicks off today (12 July).

How will Carbon Labelling work?

• 2010/07/15: EurActiv: Carbon labels potentially misleading, study warns
  Labelling consumer products with their carbon footprint is not the best approach to combating global warming as the labels at their worst increase negative environmental impacts and mislead consumers, according to European consumer organisation ANEC. As global warming has entered the consciousness of the general public, carbon footprinting (PCF) of products from food to household appliances is springing up at a fast pace, such as the British Carbon Reduction Label or the German Stop Climate Change Label. But a new study released by ANEC last week (8 July) warned that the focus on CO2 may in fact distract attention from other environmental concerns, leading to increased water usage, for instance. Simply screening for global warming potential does not give a comprehensive picture of a product's sustainability and should thus be complemented with life-cycle and eco-efficiency assessments, it argued.

The debate over the optimal strategy [carbon trading, carbon offsets, auction vs. allocation, and/or a carbon tax] to use in dealing with GHGs continues:

• 2010/07/14: EnvEcon: A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
• 2010/07/12: TEC: Whither Cap & Trade?

  Meanwhile on the international political front:

• 2010/07/15: EarthTimes: Egypt's solar, wind energy at heart of German visit
• 2010/07/14: CaribbeanNN: Guyana and Norway establish REDD+ investment fund

  As for GW, energy & security:

• 2010/07/16: TreeHugger: Forest Fires Become Weapon, Battleground in Turkey
• 2010/07/14: CDreams: [Gwynne] Dyer's Convincing Global-Warming Vision

  The issue of the law and activism is playing out around the world:

• 2010/07/14: ScienceInsider: Judge Throws Out Case Against California Animal-Rights Activists

  Regarding Water Politics and Business:

• 2010/07/17: JFleck: River Beat: Some Good News
• 2010/07/16: CDreams: Water as Human Right Threatens to Split World Body
  A long outstanding proposal to recognize the right to water as a basic universal human right is threatening to split the world's rich and poor nations. Opposition to the proposal is coming mostly from Western nations, says Maude Barlow, a global water advocate and a founder of the Canada-based Blue Planet Project. "Canada is the worst. But Australia, the United States and Great Britain are also holding up the process," she said. "I am loath to see this as a North-South issue, but it is beginning to look like it," Barlow told IPS.
• 2010/07/12: TreeHugger: US Company Set to Ship Billions of Gallons of Water from Alaska to India
• 2010/07/12: Bullet: From Water Wars to the Fight for Climate Justice by Bolivian ambassador to the UN, Pablo Solón
• 2010/07/13: CDreams: A Human Right Canada Rejects: Access to Clean Water by Maude Barlow and Anil Naidoo
• 2010/07/13: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Showerhead Definition Has Industry in a Lather
• 2010/07/13: NatureN: China faces up to groundwater crisis -- Researchers call for effective monitoring and management of water resources
• 2010/07/12: WalesOnline: UK farmers' leaders are calling for a national water grid - and Plaid MP says Wales should be compensated for its use
• 2010/07/12: ENN: Ten Nations at 'Extreme Risk' Because of Water Shortages, Report Says

  As for SW tools:

• 2010/07/14: Guardian(UK): Google climate map offers a glimpse of a 4C world
• 2010/07/13: SEasterbrook: Can we improve the engineering of climate software?
• 2010/07/13: SkeptiSci: Czech translation of Scientific Guide to the 'Skeptics Handbook'

  And on the American political front:

• 2010/07/17: CSW: An exchange on climate and energy legislation: must it include a carbon constraint?
• 2010/07/17: OilDrum: The 50-year farm bill
• 2010/07/16: Grist: California anti-climate ballot measure could have global consequences
• 2010/07/15: PRWatch: Don't Even Mention Global Warming to Kids
  A new group called "Balanced Education for Everyone"(BEE) is rolling out a national effort to stop the teaching of global warming in schools, calling it "unnecessary." The group says global warming is "junk science" and that teaching it scares schoolchildren unnecessarily.
• 2010/07/16: ClimateP: Big oil showdown in California: Proposition 23 puts clean energy in danger
• 2010/07/15: SolveClimate: Cities Maintain Green Momentum, Despite Shrinking Budgets, Shifting Priorities -- Recession prompts change in strategies, but not sustainable ideals
• 2010/07/14: CBODB: Using Biofuel Tax Credits to Achieve Energy and Environmental Policy Goals
• 2010/07/15: NRDC:SwitchBoard: CBO report shows the folly of corn ethanol tax credit
• 2010/07/15: CanWest: Desire for cheap gas beats sane energy policy
  Any informed observer knows there is a long list of reasons developed nations should act swiftly and urgently to reduce their reliance on oil. We must do it to avoid catastrophes like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. To soften the impact of price shocks. To improve air quality. To fight climate change. To lessen the risk of peak oil. To enhance our security and deny some of the world's most odious regimes their principal source of money and power. It's equally obvious this has been true at least since the 1973 Arab oil embargo. And yet, the developed world today is essentially as reliant on oil as it was in 1973. How is that possible?
• 2010/07/15: G&M: Green electricity reaches 'tipping point'
  More invested for second year in a row in renewable power generation in U.S., Europe than in conventional plants
• 2010/07/15: NPR: Clean Energy Builds Slowly, Despite Federal Cash
• 2010/07/14: SolveClimate: King Coal Looms Large Over West Virginia Senate Race, Climate Legislation
  Byrd's late-in-life acceptance of "mounting science of climate change" unlikely to be embraced by top contender for his seat
• 2010/07/14: NRDC:SwitchBoard: A Step Forward for Dirty Coal in Kansas, But a Cool New Way to Fight it
• 2010/07/14: NYT:CW: Regional Carbon Cap [RGGI] Gets Second Look as 'Template' for National Plan
• 2010/07/12: NewsWeek: A Green Retreat -- Why the environment is no longer a surefire political winner
• 2010/07/13: ClimateP: MIT: Simply dispatching natural gas plants before coal would cut U.S. power-sector CO2 emissions 10%
• 2010/07/12: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Coalition of Agriculture and Environmental Leaders Finds Common Ground on Climate Policy Principles
• 2010/07/11: STimes: Candidates for Senate deeply split on energy, climate
• 2010/07/12: MoJo: California Schemin' -- With cap and trade stalled in DC, coal and oil companies are targeting California's groundbreaking climate-change law
• 2010/07/11: ClimateP: Tom Swift and the birth of American techno-optimism

  The BP disaster in the gulf continues to twist American politics:

• 2010/07/13: Rabble: As wake-up calls go, it's hard to beat the BP oil spill
• 2010/07/17: AlterNet: Exploring the Crazy Conspiracy Theories Bubbling Up Around the BP Disaster
• 2010/07/17: ABC(Au): Oil spill drama not over yet: Obama
• 2010/07/15: Grist: BP whistleblower: 'They just don't know who they're messing with'
• 2010/07/15: MTobis: Consequences of Wishful Thinking
  Expertise is worth something. To ignore expertise is to court disaster.
• 2010/07/14: PressEurop: Let's storm the petrol Bastille
  No-one knows how long it will take before the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will be capped. Reason for which we ought to turn to the sun and start an energy revolution, argues German sociologist Ulrich Beck.
• 2010/07/15: BRitholtz: Lying to Ourselves About Oil
• 2010/07/12: Grist: Obama admin imposes new freeze on deepwater drilling
• 2010/07/13: NRDC:SwitchBoard: A Stronger Moratorium On New Oil Drilling
• 2010/07/12: ProPublica: Watch: Police Video Shows ProPublica Photographer Detained in Texas
• 2010/07/13: ProPublica: Coast Guard Changes Its Mind About Media Access to Safety Zones
• 2010/07/12: CNN: Obama administration issuing new deepwater drilling ban
• 2010/07/12: ClimateP: BP contractor: "What this company is doing to this country right now is just wrong"
• 2010/07/12: CBC: Oil spill result of technological 'hubris': expert

  The Fannie & Freddie vs. PACE fracas plays out:

• 2010/07/15: Grist: House Democrats introduce bill to defend PACE clean-energy program
• 2010/07/14: Grist: California attorney general sues Fannie & Freddie over PACE clean-energy programs
• 2010/07/15: LA Times: California seeks to lift federal block on energy-saver program
  Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown sues mortgage agencies and their regulator that shut down access to funds that allow state homeowners to pay for solar panels and other efficiency upgrades in installments.
• 2010/07/15: TreeHugger: California Sues Fannie and Freddie to Save PACE
• 2010/07/13: Grist: Long Island town threatens to sue Fannie & Freddie over [PACE] clean-energy program
• 2010/07/12: Grist: Energy efficiency helps homeowners avoid foreclosure

  The investigation of Massey and the Upper Big Branch mine disaster revealed an interesting fact:

• 2010/07/16: TP:WR: Massey Miners Disabled Methane Monitors Before Killer Explosion
• 2010/07/16: Guardian(UK): The [Upper Big Branch] mine disaster investigation
• 2010/07/14: BWeek: West Virginia Mine Blast Probes Slowed, McAteer Says
• 2010/07/15: NPR: Massey Mine Workers Disabled Safety Monitor
  An NPR News investigation has documented a dangerous and potentially illegal act at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia two months before a massive April explosion killed 29 mine workers. On Feb. 13, an electrician deliberately disabled a methane gas monitor on a continuous mining machine because the monitor repeatedly shut down the machine. Three witnesses say the electrician was ordered by a mine supervisor to "bridge" the automatic shutoff mechanism in the monitor.

And at the same time the tussle over MTR: Mountain Top Removal mining is ongoing:

• 2010/07/16: TreeHugger: Fate of Biggest US Mountaintop Removal Mining Project to be Decided This Year
• 2010/07/15: NRDC:SwitchBoard: She Won't Back Down: Ashley Judd and the Campaign to End Mountaintop Removal
• 2010/07/14: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Here Come the Judds: Singer Naomi Judd Joins Fight Against Mountaintop Removal
• 2010/07/12: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Ashley Judd Fights Back After Big Coal Attack

  Cuccinelli's attack on Michael Mann continues:

• 2010/07/15: DM:BA: Cuccinelli warms to his task of climate change denial
• 2010/07/13: CDP: Cuccinelli: Academic freedom won't shield scientist from fraud probe

  The Obama chatter is nonstop:

• 2010/07/16: Grist: How Obama can wean the country off oil without help from Congress
• 2010/07/16: WaPo: Obama pours energy into electric-car batteries, but will it jump-start industry?
• 2010/07/13: CBC: Electric car agenda pushed by Obama -- Dispatches White House officials to explore advancing clean energy
• 2010/07/12: Yahoo:CSM: In New Orleans, Gulf oil spill anger turns to Obama
• 2010/07/12: ScienceInsider: Why the Oil Spill Didn't Change the Climate Game: Author Says Blame Obama
• 2010/07/12: PlanetArk: Obama Urges Boosting Clean Energy Tax Credit

  The actions of the Obama administration are being watched closely:

• 2010/07/15: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Sobering CBO report shows massive costs of corn ethanol tax credit
• 2010/07/15: TGE: EPA Requires 800 million Gallons of Biodiesel in the U.S. Domestic Market in 2011
• 2010/07/14: E2T: By the Numbers: DOE's Electric Car Spending & Targets
• 2010/07/13: Yahoo:AP: EPA public meeting in Denver focuses on fracking
• 2010/07/14: KSJT: Bloomberg, Bioimass Magazine: Non-corn (ie cellulosic) ethanol fuel a bust, so far, in US / EPA slashes production target
• 2010/07/12: BBerg: EPA Proposes Cellulosic Ethanol Requirement That Falls Short of U.S. Goals
• 2010/07/13: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Winners and losers in latest round of federal transit grants
• 2010/07/10: LA Times: Scientists expected Obama administration to be friendlier
  A culture of politics trumping science, many say, persists despite the president's promises. The use of potentially toxic dispersants to fight the gulf oil spill is cited as just one example.

As for what is going on in Congress:

• 2010/07/16: NYT:GW: New W.Va. Senator [Carte Goodwin] Signals Opposition to Cap and Trade
  The Senate's newest member will not support any of the cap-and-trade proposals under consideration on Capitol Hill, he said today. Carte Goodwin will officially be sworn in Tuesday to replace the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), but he set down his marker on climate legislation this afternoon. "I'm a little reluctant to get into extensive policy discussion on any particular piece of legislation," Goodwin, 36, said at a press conference in Charleston, W.Va. "That being said, with regard to cap and trade, I will say this: From what I've seen of the Waxman-Markey bill that passed the House of Representatives and other proposals pending in the Senate, they simply are not right for West Virginia."
• 2010/07/16: WVGazette:CT: Financial reform bill includes Byrd-Rockefeller mine safety reporting language
• 2010/07/16: ScienceInsider: Energy Research Takes a Hit in House Spending Bill for 2011
• 2010/07/18: LVSun: Legislation would grant states revenue from clean-energy projects -- Reid, Heller seek to change BLM policy on leasing solar sites
• 2010/07/16: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Sens. Rockefeller & Voinovich release their Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment Act
• 2010/07/17: TreeHugger: Out of Touch? [Senator Claire] McCaskill (D-MO) Seems To Think The Climate Can Wait 50 Years
• 2010/07/15: Grist: House Democrats introduce bill to defend PACE clean-energy program
• 2010/07/14: BBerg: Carbon Emissions Cap-And-Trade Law Can't Pass, Senator Rockefeller Says
• 2010/07/13: TheHill:e2W: Reid throws climate lifeline to greens
• 2010/07/13: WVGazette:CT: Sen. Rockfeller set to introduce new CCS bill
• 2010/07/14: TP:WR: The Enlightened Eight: GOP Can Vote For Cap-And-Trade And Not Get Tea Partied
• 2010/07/13: BWeek: U.S. Election-Year Pressures Might Sink Carbon Caps, Kerry Says
• 2010/07/13: NYT:CW: Kerry Looking to Strike Deal With Utilities on Carbon Emissions Cap
• 2010/07/13: BBerg: U.S. Election-Year Pressures Might Sink Carbon Cap Legislation, Kerry Says

  Kerry-Boxer, Waxman-Markey, KGL, Cantwell-Collins, the APA, KL or whatever -- the future climate bill -- defines a battleline:

• 2010/07/16: BBerg: Climate Bill Would Reduce U.S. GDP by $452 Billion, Energy Department Says
• 2010/07/16: NRDC:SwitchBoard: EIA analysis of the American Power Act: modest household costs and dramatic reduction in oil imports
• 2010/07/16: Guardian(UK): US climate bill falls short of Obama's Copenhagen promise
• 2010/07/16: PlanetArk: Senate Climate Bill Falls Short Of Copenhagen Aim
• 2010/07/16: WaPo: Majority Leader Harry Reid offers a realistic energy bill
• 2010/07/14: NYT: Senate Democrats to Pursue a Smaller Energy Bill
• 2010/07/15: CPositive: US climate bill: Now for Plan D
• 2010/07/15: TreeHugger: And the [K&L] Senate Climate Bill Gets Weaker Still . . .
• 2010/07/14: ClimateP: The Politico says, "CLIMATE BILL BACK FROM THE DEAD, complete with carbon price," but the smart money -- or at least the sadder but wiser money -- says team Obama is just not that into it.
• 2010/07/14: PlanetArk: Senators [K&L] Craft Scaled-Back Climate Bill
• 2010/07/14: Grist: Against odds, Democrats will bring climate bill to Senate floor
• 2010/07/13: Grist: Senate climate bill coming in two weeks, Reid says
• 2010/07/13: TerraDaily: US Senate leaders pushes action on climate bill
  US President Barack Obama's top Senate ally said Tuesday he and other senior lawmakers had drawn up a "rough draft" of climate and energy legislation to be introduced in two weeks. "I now have a rough draft of what we're going to do," Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters. "I hope to be able to have a bill introduced (the) week after next."
• 2010/07/13: USAToday: Energy bill to debut as shadow of itself
  President Obama's attempt to use the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to help propel comprehensive energy legislation has failed, but the Senate plans to unveil a scaled-back measure as early as next week.
• 2010/07/14: PoliDaily: Cap-and-Trade Will Be Part of Senate Climate Change Bill
• 2010/07/13: HillHeat: Reid To Bring Clean Energy Bill To Floor In Two Weeks
• 2010/07/12: TEC: Whither Cap & Trade?
• 2010/07/13: TWM: Aiming low on energy/climate...

  What are the lobbyists pushing?

• 2010/07/14: BRitholtz: Government for Sale: 2009 Lobbying $3.49 Billion

  The utilities are lobbying like mad against the watered down Kerry-Lieberman lite plan:

• 2010/07/14: Grist: Utilities are trying to pull off the scam of the decade
  I'm technically on vacation, but there's an extremely important fight going on in the background right now so I want to weigh in, even at the risk of irritating my long-suffering family. Here's the deal: Right now, two things are happening in parallel. The first is getting all the attention, but the second is, in practical terms, more significant. Yet the first may screw up the second. Let me explain.
  The first thing is, Democrats in the Senate are now talking about passing a limited cap-and-trade system that only covers electric utilities.
  [...]
  The second thing is, EPA is working on a whole suite of new Clean Air Act regulations.
  [...]
  The utilities see an opening here. Their support will be crucial for getting the energy bill through the Senate. In exchange for their support, they are now asking to be exempted from the EPA's new rules...
• 2010/07/15: NYT:CW: Utilities, Signaling Support for Carbon Caps, Want 'Relief' on Other Air Pollutants
• 2010/07/16: TreeHugger: Utilities Try to Weasel Out of Pollution Controls - By Supporting Climate Action?
• 2010/07/14: TheHill:e2W: Industry groups target utility-focused climate plan
  Industry officials are attacking plans to focus greenhouse gas emission reductions on power plants, one day after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) gave new life to the idea.
• 2010/07/14: Reuters: U.S. [K&L] utility-first climate bill sparks opposition
  Two U.S. business groups opposed on Wednesday the latest version of a climate change proposal circulating in the U.S. Senate, saying it was unfair to power companies and would hurt energy-intensive industries.

The Gore-apalooza is still bopping along:

• 2010/07/15: TPMM: New Details Emerge About The Allegations Against Al Gore -- And About His Accuser
• 2010/07/12: DeSmogBlog: Al Gore Calls For Ken Cuccinelli To End Witch Hunt Against Michael Mann

  While in the UK:

• 2010/07/18: Independent(UK): Waste Britain: UK's emissions could be cut at flick of a switch -- Basic energy-saving measures could slash domestic carbon gases by up to a third
• 2010/07/17: HotTopic: Minister of silly talks
• 2010/07/16: Guardian(UK): Department of Energy and Climate Change reveals £34m cuts to low-carbon tech programme
  Wind, geothermal, bioenergy, and low-carbon buildings fund all have budgets cut as Whitehall faces squeeze
• 2010/07/13: Guardian(UK): Making UK homes energy efficient would cost less than £3,000 per house, [Energy Saving Trust] survey claims
• 2010/07/14: REA: New UK FIT Spurring PV Market Growth

  And in Europe:

• 2010/07/18: PeakEnergy: Germany targets switch to 100% renewables for its electricity by 2050
• 2010/07/12: TechRev: Europe's Renewables Unfazed by Recession -- The financial crisis in Europe is unlikely to derail Brussels' clean power vision
• 2010/07/16: DerSpiegel: Hefty Hike -- Protest in Germany over New Flight Tax
  Both politicians and airlines in Germany are up in arms at a new flight tax Chancellor Merkel's government wants to impose beginning next year. Berlin's budget could use the money, but some in Merkel's own coalition say the levy is unfair.
• 2010/07/16: EurActiv: Renewables dominate new power in Europe, US
  More than half of all new electricity capacity added in the United States and Europe last year was from renewable power such as wind and solar, a body backed by the International Energy Agency and the UN reported.
• 2010/07/16: EurActiv: Eastern Europe struggling to meet EU climate targets
  The EU's Eastern European newcomers, who still need to catch up with the rest of the Union in terms of economic and social development, face an uphill battle to attain the 'climate targets' laid out in the bloc's 'Europe 2020' strategy, a round-up of articles from the EurActiv media network reveals.
• 2010/07/16: EUO: States back emission trading rules
  EU member states have unanimously backed commission proposals that will see carbon-emitting industries buy roughly half of their emission allowances from 2013 onwards. The agreement by a committee of national experts this week (14 July) relates to phase three of the EU's emissions trading system (ETS), with companies currently receiving their allowances for free. Under the plans, Brussels has pushed the idea of a single European auctioning system to sell the pollution permits in the future. This, it argues, will maximise auctioning efficiency and keep carbon prices sufficiently high to bring down emissions, the ultimate aim behind cap and trade schemes.
• 2010/07/16: PlanetArk: Italy Proposes Regulated Market For Physical Oil [in order to cut speculation]
• 2010/07/15: EurActiv: EU's 'big three' issue joint call for 30% CO2 cuts
  Ministers from the UK, France and Germany have issued a joint call for the EU to raise its emission reduction target to 30% by 2020.
• 2010/07/15: EUO: France, UK and Germany call for 30 percent CO2 cut
  Ministers from three of Europe's largest countries have called on the EU to make a unilateral move towards cutting carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2020, rather than the current target of 20 percent.
• 2010/07/15: ClimateP: UK, Germany and France: Europe must cut emissions 30% to capture "low carbon economic opportunities."
• 2010/07/15: PlanetArk: EU Agrees On Carbon Permit Auction Rules From 2013
• 2010/07/14: Reuters: German CO2 storage bill arises from political ashes
  Germany said on Wednesday it would resurrect a carbon dioxide storage bill killed before federal elections last year following strong public opposition in areas earmarked for storage facilities. The economy and environment ministries said the carbon capture and storage (CCS) law, planned for approval by the cabinet in September and parliament by the year-end, would pave the way for further developing technology aimed at cutting pollution from coal-burning power plants.
• 2010/07/15: EarthTimes: EU heavyweights in surprise call for tougher climate cuts
  Brussels - The environment ministers of the European Union's three most powerful states on Thursday called on the bloc to target tougher greenhouse-gas emission cuts in a surprise move signalling a potential battle royal for the autumn. The EU has pledged to cut emissions to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and to deepen the cut to 30 per cent if other developed states make "similar efforts." After the failure of climate talks in Copenhagen in December, the 30-per-cent goal was sidelined. But the environment ministers of Germany, Britain and France said in a joint letter to the Financial Times that the EU should adopt the 30-per-cent target despite the failure of the Copenhagen talks, to boost its own economy.
• 2010/07/15: BBC: EU climate chief [Connie Hedegaard] asks for leadership
• 2010/07/14: EurActiv: EU GMO proposals draw widespread criticism
  EU member states will be able to ban GMO cultivation on their territory under new proposals tabled yesterday (13 July), but will need the EU institutions' approval to act if their decision is not based on scientific evidence.
• 2010/07/13: Reuters: Europe half-way to reaching 20 pct renewable target
• 2010/07/14: PhysOrg: EU effort to end GM crop deadlock meets resistance
  The European Commission sought Tuesday to end a deadlock blocking the growth of genetically modified crops in Europe, proposing to give countries the freedom to ban the controversial foods. But the proposal drew immediate protests on both sides of the issue amid deep divisions in Europe over the safety of such food.
• 2010/07/13: EUO: Commission gambit could end GMO impasse
  In a potentially risky gamble to break an EU impasse over the cultivation of Genetically Modified Organisms which has lasted more than a decade, the European Commission will on Tuesday (13 July) propose a plan that both helps anti-GMO member states to ban them and lets those countries that favour the technology to move full-speed ahead with commercial planting. Until March this year when the new commission gave the green light to a GM potato variety produced by German chemical and agribusiness giant Basf, sparking vociferous controversy across the bloc, no new GM crops had been approved in the EU since some Monsanto maize in 1998.
• 2010/07/13: BBC: EU member states agree on ITER funding shortfall
• 2010/07/13: BBC: EU to let states rule on GM crops
  EU officials plan to give the 27 member states the freedom to grow, restrict or ban genetically modified (GM) crops.
• 2010/07/13: CBC: Renewable energy expands in Europe
  The European Union says 10.3 per cent of its energy came from renewable sources such as solar and wind power and biofuels in 2008. The 27-nation bloc aims to bring that up to 20 per cent by 2020.
• 2010/07/13: Guardian(UK): [Letters] Reasons to keep Europe's CAP
• 2010/07/12: Guardian(UK): GM crop ban may be lifted in EU
  Proposal to resolve 12-year deadlock would allow individual states to decide on what to cultivate or to continue restrictions
• 2010/07/12: EurActiv: EU sets 2013 cap under emissions trading scheme
  Greenhouse gas emissions from industrial installations covered by the EU's emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) will be capped at just under 1.927 billion allowances for 2013, the European Commission said on Friday (9 July). The Commission's decision determines the maximum amount of emissions from around 11,000 industrial installations and power plants regulated by the EU ETS in 2013. The companies will have to surrender an allowance for each tonne of carbon they emit.
• 2010/07/12: EurActiv: Hungary ambitious about climate policy goals
• 2010/07/12: EurActiv: EU wants to put GMO dispute to an end
  The European Commission will tomorrow (13 July) propose an overhaul of the EU's policy for approving genetically modified (GM) crops, which will allow countries more freedom to ban cultivation on their territory while retaining an EU-wide authorisation system.

Meanwhile in Australia:

• 2010/06/24: 538: The Virtues of Standing Fast: The Lessons in the Fall of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
• 2010/07/17: ABC(Au): The Conservation Council remains concerned the State Government has no effective long term strategy to curtail carbon emissions in West Australia
• 2010/07/16: ABC(Au): Cairns hosts climate change forum
  An international forum is looking at how climate change is affecting the Great Barrier Reef and the Wet Tropics. The Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ) forum is being hosted in Cairns in far north Queensland on Friday
• 2010/07/16: ABC(Au): Study lists properties at risk of rising sea levels
  Wollongong City Council's coastal zone study has identified more than 2,600 properties which could be affected by a major storm if sea levels rise 90 centimetres by 2100. Council spokeswoman Renee Campbell says a 90-centimetre increase in sea level is the New South Wales Government standard. She says the study is quite a contrast to a Federal Government report which suggested 6,000 properties were at risk.
• 2010/07/16: ABC(Au): South Australia could be major wind energy supplier: Premier [Mike Rann]
• 2010/07/16: ABC(Au): Gillard, Greens discuss climate policy
  Julia Gillard has spoken with Greens leader Bob Brown face-to-face for the first time since becoming Prime Minister. The two leaders met in Canberra yesterday after Ms Gillard laid out her economic credentials and promised to conduct a "lean" election campaign. But Senator Brown was focused on climate change policy.
• 2010/07/15: ABC(Au): Revived solar school program dismissed as 'trickery'
  The Federal Opposition has described the Government's revived solar schools program as "trickery". The Government scheme, which gives schools grants of up to $50,000 for solar panels, solar hot-water heaters and water tanks, was suspended last year. Minister for Climate Change Penny Wong announced yesterday applications will be accepted until the end of August.
• 2010/07/15: ENS: Sydney [Australia] Tries Greener Transport With Electric Cars, New Cycleway
• 2010/07/14: ABC(Au): Sustainability group wants geothermal energy policy push
  A central Victorian green group says targeted policies need to be in place to encourage investment in geothermal energy in Victoria.
• 2010/07/14: BNC: BNC community analysis of the Zero Carbon Australia 2020 Report
• 2010/07/13: ABC(Au): Prime Minister Julia Gillard is moving to clear the last piece of policy baggage left by Kevin Rudd - what to do about climate change now that the Government has shelved its emissions trading scheme (ETS) for a couple of years
• 2010/07/13: ABC(Au): Report maps way to clean power future
  Australia's energy grid could run entirely on renewables such as wind and solar power within 10 years, according to a report to be released tomorrow. The report outlines a 10-year road map which the authors say is affordable and achievable. Its recommendations have been endorsed by the International Energy Agency (IAEA). It is known as the Zero Carbon Australia 2020 report and it outlines a plan which its authors say can replace fossil fuel electricity with 100 per cent renewable energy within 10 years.
• 2010/07/13: ABC(Au): Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott says he can guarantee electricity prices will not rise as a result of the Coalition's climate change plan
• 2010/07/13: ABC(Au): The Federal Government has come under attack for failing to include Australia's only domestic producer of solar panels in a Commonwealth tender
• 2010/07/13: ABC(Au): Aviva Corporation says it would have no trouble meeting strict emissions requirements for its proposed Coolimba power station at Eneabba
• 2010/07/13: ABC(Au): Gillard must admit carbon trading inevitable
  As Federal Cabinet goes through the rather novel (for them) task today of debating important economic policies, including carbon pollution reduction, they should do two fundamental things: recommit Australia to an unconditional 5 per cent reduction target, and to emissions trading. Unfortunately like immigration and refugee policy, climate change is now being discussed in the caged wrestling match of an election campaign, so anything at all is possible. Also, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the rest of the Cabinet will no doubt remember Kevin Rudd's expletives in Copenhagen. He famously returned from high level meetings to a room full of journalists and declared that the "Chinese f**kers are ratf**king us", as revealed eventually by David Marr in the recent Quarterly Essay. The language, and its revelation, appears to have been a tack in his coffin, but what he said was accurate. China showed by its by behaviour in Copenhagen that it is a fair chance to undermine efforts to establish global emissions trading, even though it is pushing ahead with renewable energy. That, plus the Coalition's decision to abandon support for emissions trading, has made the political debate around this subject complicated and difficult.
• 2010/07/12: ABC(Au): Business wants emissions trading deferred: survey
  A survey has found nearly three-quarters of Australian businesses would prefer tax incentives for energy efficiency over a carbon tax or emissions trading scheme. The pre-election survey of more than a thousand businesses was done by the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
• 2010/07/12: ABC(Au): Smith won't commit to second-term ETS
  Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith has refused to commit to the Government to legislating an emissions trading scheme (ETS) in its second term. Stephen Smith says Prime Minister Julia Gillard has made it clear she will not commit to reconsidering the ETS until the end of 2012. Ms Gillard is expected to make an announcement in the coming days about climate change policy.
• 2010/07/12: ABC(Au): Top biofuel scientists to meet in Cairns
  Two hundred of the world's top minds in plant oil research will gather to share their knowledge at an international conference in Cairns this week. The International Symposium on Plant Lipids will look at ways to reduce dependence on petroleum products.
• 2010/07/12: ABC(Au): Solar hot water uptake encouraged -- More Tasmanians are being encouraged to install solar hot water systems.
• 2010/07/12: ABC(Au): Labor urged to 'pick sides' on climate change
  A new survey of voters suggests Australians still want action on climate change. The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) commissioned an Auspoll survey of 1,500 voters.
• 2010/07/12: People's Daily: Australian gov't urged to act on carbon tax [by Greens leader Bob Brown]

  Julia pulled the pin. The election explodes on August 21st:

• 2010/07/17: Guardian(UK): Australian PM Julia Gillard announces 21 August election date
• 2010/07/18: ABC(Au): Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says there will not be a price on carbon in Australia if the Coalition wins Government
• 2010/07/18: JQuiggin: The case for the Greens
• 2010/07/17: ABC(Au): Climate change flagged as key election issue -- Prime Minister Julia Gillard has listed climate change as among her top three priorities...
• 2010/07/17: SMH: Climate could hurt or help Gillard
• 2010/07/16: BBC: Australia will hold a general election on 21 August, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced
• 2010/07/16: CBC: Australia heads to August vote
  Australia's first woman prime minister Julia Gillard, who has led the country for three weeks, has called a general election on Aug. 21 and urged voters to show trust in her by returning her party for a second three-year term.
• 2010/07/12: NYT:Reuters: Australian PM May Call Election Within Days: Media

  And in New Zealand:

• 2010/07/12: HotTopic: NZ ETS passes the Kyoto bill to our children

  While in China:

• 2010/07/16: TreeHugger: China's Carbon Emissions Need to Peak by 2020 for World to Meet Global Reduction Goals: IEA
• 2010/07/13: BBerg: China Surges Past U.S., Europe in Financing for Clean-Energy Technologies

  And Japan:

• 2010/07/14: TEC: Good News or Bad News: Japanese Development of Clean Development Mechanism
• 2010/07/13: CPositive: Japan ETS plan hits electoral snag
• 2010/07/12: Reuters: Fate of Japan climate bill uncertain after election

  While elsewhere in Asia:

• 2010/07/18: Xinhuanet: Maldives hosts meeting on climate change
  The Maldives is hosting an innovative meeting of developing and rich world countries that want strong international action on climate change, the Maidivian presidential office said on Saturday in a statement. According to the statement issued by the office, the "Cartagena Group/Dialog for Progressive Action" is being held Saturday and Sunday at Bandos Island resort near the capital Male.

While in Africa:

• 2010/07/13: BBC: Nigeria's state oil firm is insolvent, unable to pay debts of $5bn (£3.3bn), a government minister has said

  And South America and the Caribbean:

• 2010/07/15: IPSNews: Environment's Poverty-Fighting Potential Largely Ignored
  The environment remains a second-tier matter in Latin America and the Caribbean despite being interwoven with persistent poverty and stalled economic development in the region, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme.

In Canada, minority neocon PM Harper, continues his do-nothing policy:

• 2010/07/15: CanWest: Desire for cheap gas beats sane energy policy
  Any informed observer knows there is a long list of reasons developed nations should act swiftly and urgently to reduce their reliance on oil. We must do it to avoid catastrophes like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. To soften the impact of price shocks. To improve air quality. To fight climate change. To lessen the risk of peak oil. To enhance our security and deny some of the world's most odious regimes their principal source of money and power. It's equally obvious this has been true at least since the 1973 Arab oil embargo. And yet, the developed world today is essentially as reliant on oil as it was in 1973. How is that possible?
• 2010/07/13: EnergyBulletin: Canada's energy superpower delusion
• 2010/07/12: ChronicleHerald: Energy polls well-funded -- Feds put $240,000 into surveying how public regards green initiatives

  The Senate passed the Tory omnibus budget. That's the one that knackers environmental assessments:

• 2010/07/12: CBC: Senate votes to pass [omnibus] budget bill
• 2010/07/12: HillTimes: Canada's environment threatened by regressive changes in omnibus budget bill, say critics
  Environmentalists say the government's move to 'gut' the Canadian Environment Assessment Act will weaken environmental protection assessments for development projects like the tar sands, mine, oil and gas pipelines and nuclear power plants.

Questions and debate about offshore and Arctic drilling continue:

• 2010/07/16: CBC: Arctic drilling review hearing from wary public -- Friday is last day for input on offshore drilling in North
  The National Energy Board's public review of Arctic offshore drilling regulations has drawn responses from people concerned about the risk of a big oil spill similar to the one in the Gulf of Mexico occurring in northern Canadian waters. Friday is the deadline for public comment on the federal board's review, which will look at safety and environmental protection requirements for Arctic offshore drilling. The NEB says it plans to complete the review before it considers any Arctic offshore drilling applications.

There is still a lot of talk about the G8/G20 policing:

• 2010/07/18: BCLSB: Riot In T.O.: How It All Went Down At The G-20
• 2010/07/14: NewDeal2.0: The G20 Plan for Prosperity: Rubber Bullets and Shredded Social Safety Net
  Police brutality at the G-20 protests in Toronto targeted freedom of speech and assembly, putting the world's poor and working people on notice.
• 2010/07/15: WoodShed: the hits just keep on coming
  G20Justice.com has been collecting all the horror stories from the G20 police riots.
• 2010/07/15: TStar: Why is Harper escaping G20 aftermath scot-free?
• 2010/07/13: BDBO: Global TV National News uses Vancouver footage for G-20 Toronto story
• 2010/07/14: WpgFP: G20 questions left hanging
  A small group of "anarchists" torches four police cars and trashes businesses all along Yonge Street while police stand back out of sight. Close to 1,000 peaceful protesters and innocent bystanders are swept up and held in a dirty makeshift jail for 24 hours; then almost all are released without charge.
  
  Were both events deliberately orchestrated to provide the incendiary coast-to-coast television footage and "riot" stories from the G20 summit in Toronto that, polls say, apparently convinced a majority of Canadians the police crackdown and, by extension, the bloated $1.2-billion security budget, was necessary?
• 2010/07/13: G&M: Tory filibuster seeks to block hearings on G20 policing
• 2010/07/12: TStar: Not just about police
• 2010/07/12: TStar: G20 crackdown reeks of tyranny

  Officer Bubbles has become a YouTube hit:

• 2010/07/17: LawIsCool: Const. Adam Josephs, aka Officer Bubbles
• 2010/07/12: NotR: Cops Behaving Badly: G-20 Dickweed of the Day
  He threatens to arrest a girl for blowing bubbles. BUBBLES, people. You know, those harmless, rainbow-swirly little things made of soap, water and air? The kind little kids blow all the time, and laugh hysterically over when one pops on them? To this dickweed, though, that's "detergent", and constitutes an "assault".

Regarding that tarsands report the Commons committee killed:

• 2010/07/15: Tyee: What Those Who Killed the Tar Sands Report Don't Want You to Know
  Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly destroy drafts of a final report on tar sands pollution? Here's what they knew.
  Just two weeks ago the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development abruptly cancelled a big report on the tar sands and the project's extreme water impacts. The parliamentarians even destroyed draft copies of their final report. After listening to testimony from scores of scientists, bureaucrats, lobbyists, aboriginal chiefs and environmental groups, the committee dropped the whole affair like a bucket of tar.
  [...]
  Fortunately, civilians can do what politicians can't. In the interests of accountability and transparency, I read through 300 pages of evidence and pulled out the sort of uncomfortable revelations that Ottawa doesn't want U.S. oil customers, industry investors or Canadian taxpayers to know. The evidence, of course, all points to one embarrassing conclusion: Ottawa has managed its mandate in the tar sands as irresponsibly as the U.S. Mineral Management Services oversaw the safety of deep sea drilling in the Gulf.

The Green Party's leadership convention approaches:

• 2010/07/16: DemSpace: The Green Party's Mess

  The Keystone XL pipeline is still being argued:

• 2010/07/15: TStar: After the Gulf, an oil sands debate looms [over Keystone XL]

  An anti-tarsands video has the carbon lobby in a tizzy:

• 2010/07/16: CBC: Anti-oilsands video has 'editing error' -- U.S. group admits the size of area affected is only the size of England
• 2010/07/15: CanWest: U.S. ads call for Alberta boycott -- Tarsands spark push to keep tourists away
  Environmental groups are taking another whack at the oilsands, trying to capitalize on fallout from the BP oil spill to discourage tourists from visiting the province. Billboards in four American cities compare oil-covered birds in the Gulf of Mexico with dead ducks in a Syncrude tailings pond. The ads, calling the oilsands the "other oil disaster" and asking would-be visitors to rethink a trip north, spurred immediate reaction from politicians and the oil and tourism industries.
• 2010/07/15: CBC: Anti-oilsands ads target Alberta tourism -- Alberta travel industry 'disappointed,' not overly worried by campaign
  A U.S. group has unveiled billboards urging Americans to reconsider their travel plans to Alberta because of the province's oilsands projects. Corporate Ethics International launched billboards in four U.S. cities Wednesday that compare Alberta's oilsands to the environmental disaster caused by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
• 2010/07/15: ChronicleHerald: Stelmach fumes over ad
  Rethink Alberta campaign using billboards to warn U.S., British tourists to avoid home of the tarsands
  New U.S. ads that seek to tar Alberta's image as a tourist haven is fomenting outrage among politicians and industry players in the province -- just as the campaign's organizers anticipated. The Rethink Alberta campaign was conceived by Corporate Ethics International, the San Francisco-based group behind recent ads likening oilsands development to the scenes of plunder depicted in the blockbuster film Avatar.
• 2010/07/14: CBC: Anti-oilsands ads target Alberta tourism -- Alberta travel industry 'disappointed' but not overly worried by campaign

  BC is still wrangling over energy:

• 2010/07/14: CBC: BP explores B.C. coal methane reserves -- Demonstration planned for Fernie to protest tests
  BP manager Kendal Umscheid estimates that there are about 250 billion cubic metres of gas underneath the 300 square kilometres licensed to BP by the province of B.C.BP manager Kendal Umscheid estimates that there are about 250 billion cubic metres of gas underneath the 300 square kilometres licensed to BP by the province of B.C. BP has set up its first test well in B.C. to explore the possibility of extracting methane from coal in the Rocky Mountains of the province's southeast.
• 2010/07/14: G&M: B.C. minister attacks park supporters as eco-fascists
  Apologizes for 'very unfortunate' term, but stands by email barrage against environmentalists British Columbia Mining Minster Bill Bennett is deriding those who want to turn the Flathead Valley into a national park as "urban-based enviro's" and eco-fascists in an e-mail missive that urges his constituents to lobby Ottawa to turn down any request for such a park.
• 2010/07/14: CanWest: Energy minister sorry for calling park proponents 'eco fascists'
  Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Bill Bennett apologized Tuesday after an e-mail sent under his name used the term "eco fascists" to describe those who want to turn the Flathead Valley into a national park.

Meanwhile in that Mechanical Mordor known as the tar sands:

• 2010/07/13: OSW: Latest blowout shines spotlight on in situ's impacts
  For 36 hours this past weekend, a stream of high-temperature water and oil shot 12 metres into the air after a wellhead blew out at an in situ oil sands site just eight kilometres from the town of Conklin in northeastern Alberta. This incident points to the fact that in situ, contrary to industry claims, is not a benign or risk-free extraction method.
• 2010/07/17: CanWest: American demand fuelling Alberta oilsands production
  Corporate Ethics International should take aim at careless U.S. energy consumers rather than urging tourists to boycott province
• 2010/07/14: EmbassyMag: Facing the geopolitical perils of being an 'energy superpower'
  Are the tar sands roping Canada into a dangerous game between China and the US?
• 2010/07/16: LeDaro: Alberta's Dirty oil
• 2010/07/15: EnergyBulletin: Oil sands cannot save us from peak oil
• 2010/07/14: ChronicleHerald: Cause of leak at Jackfish tarsands unclear
• 2010/07/14: PlanetArk: Devon Energy Has Well Blowout At Oil Sands Project
  A well at Devon Energy Corp's Canadian oil sands operations had a blowout on Saturday that took nearly 35 hours to get under control, Alberta regulators said. The well, part of Devon's Jackfish project in northern Alberta, blew a mixture of steam and oil over the project area. Regulators are as yet unsure how much oil was released and will audit production records to determine how much was spilled.

In Saskatchewan the Premier is tying himself in knots:

• 2010/07/15: BuckDog: When Brad Wall Tells You That He Has No Money For Floods, etc - Ask Him Why He Abandoned $800 Million Equalization Dollars From Ottawa

  Ontario has it's Green Energy Act, now comes the implementation:

• 2010/07/16: TEC: On Electricity Pricing [in Ontario]

  In the Maritimes:

• 2010/07/17: PeakEnergy: Canadian [Point Lepreau] nuclear plant rehab goes awry
• 2010/07/14: CBC: Atlantic natural gas industry in deep trouble
  A steep drop in the price of natural gas has crippled an East Coast natural gas industry that once held great promise. ExxonMobil recently decided not to extend the life of its natural gas project off Nova Scotia's Sable Island and the liquefied natural gas terminal proposed for Placentia Bay may never get off the ground. Many of the projects were proposed five years ago when the price of natural gas was climbing steadily toward an all-time high.

The movement toward a long term ecologically viable economics is glacial:

• 2010/07/14: TMoS: The Century of Revolution
• 2010/07/13: CCurrents: Nature's Bottom Line
  Ecological collapse is all around. But faith in economic growth as the only path to prosperity shows no sign of fading. Wayne Ellwood examines the folly of endless growth on a finite planet.
• 2010/07/13: CCurrents: Our Plunder Of Nature Will End Up Killing Capitalism And Our Obscene Lifestyles
• 2010/07/11: AlterNet: Joe Bageant: Our Plunder of Nature Will End Up Killing Capitalism and Our Obscene Lifestyles
• 2010/07/11: TCoE: The Cost of Indifference
• 2010/07/11: Guardian(UK): 'Soulless corporations are the enemy of the environment,' says Pavan Sukhdev
  It is up to society and its leaders to ensure that companies do not become cancerous, says leading UN official

IPAT [Impact = Population * Affluence * Technology] raised its head once again:

• 2010/07/17: Grist: Population trends as you've never seen them before [VIDEO]
• 2010/07/12: RS: Does population matter?
• 2010/07/12: Independent(UK): Population explosion scrutinised as scientists urge politicians to act
• 2010/07/14: TreeHugger: Is Overpopulation a Green Myth?
• 2010/07/13: CCurrents: Population Isn't The Problem [Pearce]
• 2010/07/13: CCurrents: Of Course Population Is Still A Problem
• 2010/07/12: BBC: Global population study launched by Royal Society
• 2010/07/12: Grist: Of course population is still a problem
• 2010/07/13: TreeHugger: Connecting the Dots: Population Growth, Consumerism & Biodiversity Loss Tangled Together
• 2010/07/13: TWM: Conservatives are coming for your birth control...
• 2010/07/12: TreeHugger: Growing Consumer Consumption a Bigger Problem Than Growing Population: Fred Pearce
• 2010/07/12: BBC: Global population study launched by Royal Society
  The UK's Royal Society is launching a major study into human population growth and how it may affect social and economic development in coming decades. The world's population has risen from two billion in 1930 to 6.8 billion now, with nine billion projected by 2050.

Apocalypso anyone?

• 2010/07/15: CCurrents: We're Speeding On The Road To Extinction
• 2010/07/12: AlterNet: Prepping for Apocalypse: The Strange World of Survivalists

  As for how the media handles the science of climatology:

• 2010/07/11: Stoat: And the Economist is rubbish too

  An interesting test of Chomsky's thesis has cropped up. In this case, the National Post has new owners:

• 2007/05/21: MediaChannel: Searching For The New "Propaganda Model"
  ...one mainstream corporate journalist there... explained the "model's focus on the filters" that much news has to pass through:
  Stripped down for purposes of, as Chomsky would say, typical media "concision," they are:
  ownership interests, advertiser concerns, the nature of journalists' sources, flak (or negative feedback) and ideology.
• 2010/07/17: ClimateP: National Post shocker: "Global-warming deniers are a liability to the conservative cause"
• 2010/07/15: NatPo: Bad science: Global-warming deniers are a liability to the conservative cause
• 2010/07/16: DeepClimate: National Post shocking turnaround: "Global-warming deniers are a liability to the conservative cause"
• 2010/07/16: MoD: Deniers are doing all conservatives a disservice [Kay]
• 2010/07/15: BCLSB: Who Kidnapped Jonathon Kay...and replaced him with a journalist?

  David Appell of Quark Soup fame might quit reporting on climate:

• 2010/07/17: JFleck: Why David Appell Might Quit Reporting on Climate
• 2010/07/15: QuarkSoup: Why I Might Quit Reporting on Climate

  Regarding the quality of blogosphere discussion:

• 2010/07/15: DM:CCM: The New Moderated -- and Moderate -- Intersection

  Here is something for your library:

• 2010/07/12: GreenGrok: A Meditation on Whales and Climate -- _Moby Dick_ by Herman Melville
• 2010/07/14: ClimateP: Review of the must-read book: Merchants of Doubt [by Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway]
• 2010/07/14: PeakEnergy: Geoengineering Books

  And for your film & video enjoyment:

• NYRAD: 'The Marcellus Gas Shale Play: Information for an Informed Citizenry' - a talk by Professor Ingraffea
• 2010/07/13: MoD: Climate Change and National Security; Part 2 [video]
• 2010/07/13: CCrocks: The Mind of the Denier [video]

  As for podcasts:

• 2010/07/18: SkeptiSci: Irregular Climate podcast #8: Journalismgate, prawngate and rock & roll
• 2010/07/14: MoD: Irregular Climate Episode 7

  Meanwhile among the 'Sue the Bastards!' contingent:

• 2010/07/16: WarmingLaw: Update on the Bazillion Legal Challenges Facing the EPA over Greenhouse Gases
• 2010/07/16: CBC: Filmmaker to give Chevron limited footage: court -- Lower court had ordered all raw footage turned over
  A New York federal Appeals Court on Thursday limited the amount of raw footage that a filmmaker must release from his documentary about a legal fight between Chevron and Ecuadoreans over oil contamination. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a two-page order that filmmaker Joseph Berlinger no longer has to give Chevron all 600 hours of raw footage that was used to create Crude, a documentary that was released last year. A three-judge panel of the Appeals Court said Berlinger must produce only the raw footage that shows lawyers for Ecuadoreans who sued Chevron Corp., private or court-appointed experts in that proceeding and current or former officials of Ecuador's government. The Appeals Court also said the raw footage could be used solely for litigation, arbitration or submission to official bodies, whether they be local or international.
• 2010/07/15: TEC: California sues Fannie/Freddie over PACE solar loans

  Among the non-members of Gamblers Anonymous:

• 2010/07/17: JEB: Hotting up?

  Developing a new energy infrastructure is a fundamental challenge of the current generation:

• 2010/07/18: PeakEnergy: Germany targets switch to 100% renewables for its electricity by 2050
• 2010/07/17: PeakEnergy: Geodynamics set to prove hot rocks model
• 2010/07/17: PeakEnergy: Woodside in power talks with Tidal Energy
• 2010/07/16: PlanetArk: Italy Proposes Regulated Market For Physical Oil [in order to cut speculation]
• 2010/07/16: SciNow: The Case of the Poisoned Fuel Cell
• 2010/07/15: LA Times:M&Co.: Big Oil and biofuels: BP pays $98.3 million for Verenium's biofuels branch
• 2010/07/16: OilDrum: US Oil Imports: Why it is Difficult to "Fix" the Situation - Looking at a Few Graphs
• 2010/07/15: Nation: Green Energy: A Special Issue [4 articles]
• 2010/07/15: Nation: Kicking the Oil Habit
• 2010/07/15: TreeHugger: After Oil, the Extreme Risk of Biofuel Dependency
• 2010/07/15: PeakEnergy: Paris looks for power from turbines beneath the Seine
• 2010/07/13: SolveClimate: Liquid Coal and Biomass Plant, Nation's First, Stirs Controversy in Pennsylvania
  Environmental groups dispute 'green' claims, despite use of algae to absorb carbon dioxide
• 2010/07/14: NYT:AP: Solar Wells Displacing Windmills on Western Range
• 2010/07/14: PeakEnergy: 'Significant' geothermal energy reserves discovered In Victoria
• 2010/07/13: EnergyBulletin: Is net energy peaking?
• 2010/07/11: NBF: China has a Catalyst to Convert Shale Oil Directly into Transportation Fuel
• 2010/07/12: PhysOrg: First ever hybrid solar-coal power plant operating
• 2010/07/11: AutoBG: Study: Gasoline consumption rises in the Northwest despite stalled economy
• 2010/07/12: REA: UC Berkeley Study Touts Economic Benefits of Feed-In Tariffs [FITs]
• 2010/07/12: BNC: TCASE 12: A checklist for renewable energy plans

  Hey! Let's contaminate the aquifer for thousands of years! It'll be a fracking gas!

• 2010/07/15: NYT:GW: Natural Gas Company's Disclosure Decision Could Change Fracking Debate
  A Texas natural gas producer's decision to voluntarily disclose the chemicals it injects into the ground could prompt other drillers to do the same, and pave the way for regulators to require such disclosure. But Range Resources Corp.'s move also reflects the desire of industry to get out ahead of the issue to prevent federal regulation of the key drilling practice called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
• 2010/07/16: TEC: Natural Gas Revolution - Ba Humbug!
• 2010/07/16: ProPublica: Drilling Company Says It Will List Hazardous Chemicals Used in Fracking
• 2010/07/15: SolveClimate: Blowout Preventer Failure on Gas Well in Pennsylvania Potentially Catastrophic -- Well operator slapped with a fine but holds onto drilling license
• 2010/07/14: CBC: BP explores B.C. coal methane reserves
• 2010/07/13: Yahoo:AP: EPA public meeting in Denver focuses on fracking
• 2010/07/14: CBC: Atlantic natural gas industry in deep trouble
  A steep drop in the price of natural gas has crippled an East Coast natural gas industry that once held great promise. ExxonMobil recently decided not to extend the life of its natural gas project off Nova Scotia's Sable Island and the liquefied natural gas terminal proposed for Placentia Bay may never get off the ground. Many of the projects were proposed five years ago when the price of natural gas was climbing steadily toward an all-time high.
• 2010/07/12: SciAm: The Drillers Are Coming: Debate over Hydraulic Fracturing Heats Up
  Companies and regulators are squaring off over the controversial technique that yields natural gas but threatens to pollute freshwater supplies
• 2010/07/13: ProPublica: For Gas-Drilling Data, There's a New Place to Dig
• 2010/07/11: SolveClimate: Natural Gas Boom Not Worth Costs and Risks, Study Warns
  Utility-funded report warns of environmental risks of 'fracking' and $700 billion-plus price tag to switch from coal to gas

The answer my friend...:

• 2010/07/11: MillerMcCune: Locally Owned Wind Power: Quaint it Ain't
• 2010/07/15: REA: First Wind Starts Building [30-megawatt] Kahuku Wind Project [on Oahu]
• 2010/07/15: BBC: Armed Forces and [wind power] turbines can co-exist
• 2010/07/13: PhysOrg: Wind power on a smaller scale carries potential
• 2010/07/12: EnergyBulletin: With a boost from innovation, small wind is powering ahead

  Meanwhile among the solar aficionados:

• 2010/07/16: PhysOrg: Clouds gathering over German solar sector: study
• 2010/07/15: SolveClimate: Solar Thermal Gears Up for a Comeback
  Low PV costs and a shaky economy have slowed the development of large-scale concentrating solar power plants, but CSP producers are fighting back.
• 2010/07/14: Grist: Italy's Enel opens innovative [CSP] solar power plant
• 2010/07/15: REA: The good, bad and ugly on CSP Project Development
• 2010/07/14: PeakEnergy: Pike research: Solar To Hit Grid Parity by 2013 [ie. the cost of electricity from traditional power sources]
• 2010/07/13: PhysOrg: Imec reports record efficiencies for large-area epitaxial thin-film silicon solar cells
• 2010/07/12: Guardian(UK): Egypt plans 100MW solar power plant
  Second major solar plant announced as country edges towards target of generating 20 per cent of energy from renewables by 2020
• 2010/07/12: REA: JA Solar Receives 70 MW Products Order

  On the coal front:

• 2010/07/14: AlterNet: Coal Power Plant Planned In World's Worst Possible Location
• 2010/07/12: OilDrum: The Chinese Coal Monster

  Biofuel bickering abounds:

• 2010/07/18: PeakEnergy: Adnams brews up biogas revolution
• 2010/07/16: Grist: Ethanol gets skewered by recent CBO assessment
• 2010/07/15: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Sobering CBO report shows massive costs of corn ethanol tax credit
• 2010/07/15: TGE: EPA Requires 800 million Gallons of Biodiesel in the U.S. Domestic Market in 2011
• 2010/07/15: PlanetArk: Exxon Says Growing Its Algae Biofuels Program
• 2010/07/14: KSJT: Bloomberg, Bioimass Magazine: Non-corn (ie cellulosic) ethanol fuel a bust, so far, in US / EPA slashes production target
• 2010/07/12: Reuters: U.S. to use more ethanol in 2011, but smaller market share
  Ethanol and other renewable fuels must account for 7.95 percent of total gasoline sales in 2011 to meet Congress' mandate for 13.95 billion gallons of renewable fuels expected to be produced next year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Monday.
• 2010/07/12: SolveClimate: All Biomass Is Not Created Equal, At Least in Massachusetts -- Controversy as the state sets deadline for accurate and full accounting of biomass emissions
• 2010/07/12: ASA: Yield Projections for Switchgrass as a Biofuel Crop -- Scientists compile field studies across U.S. to identify influences on biomass yield

  The nuclear energy controversy continues:

• 2010/07/17: PeakEnergy: Canadian [Point Lepreau] nuclear plant rehab goes awry
• 2010/07/16: PeakEnergy: Uranium Prices Heating Up?
• 2010/07/14: TEC: Small Nuclear Gets Real
• 2010/07/13: NBF: OECD Nuclear Generation 731 TWH for First Four Months of 2010
• 2010/07/14: NatureTGB: How a flagship fusion project [ITER] became 'a small catastrophe' for research
• 2010/07/13: ScienceInsider: European Union Ministers: No New Money for [ITER] Giant Fusion Reactor
• 2010/07/12: NBF: China is Stockpiling Uranium and the Ukraine has Increased Nuclear Generation
• 2010/07/13: BBC: EU member states agree on ITER funding shortfall
  Additional funds needed to construct the ITER fusion reactor will have to come from within the EU's budget, member states have said. The French-based machine will prove the concept of harvesting energy from the fusion of hydrogen nuclei - the same process at the heart of the Sun. ITER has seen its baseline price tag rise dramatically since a consortium of nations green lit the project in 2006. The extra 1.4bn euros will cover a shortfall in building costs in 2012-13.
• 2010/07/12: EarthTimes: No details of nuclear plant until fall, says Lithuanian premier

  Yes we have peak everything:

• 2010/07/17: EnergyBulletin: Oilpatch engineer replies to peak oil activist
• 2010/07/17: PeakEnergy: Wall St and peak oil
• 2010/07/14: Guardian(UK): Scientist urges government to address 'peak phosphate' risk
• 2010/07/: AmericanScientist: Does Peak Phosphorus Loom? -- Scientists make the case that easily accessible supplies of an essential element are being depleted
• 2010/07/14: EnergyBulletin: The peak oil crisis: A mid-year review
• 2010/07/14: EurActiv: EU-US to collaborate on 'rare earths'
  The US Congress and the European Parliament could hold parallel hearings and produce a joint communiqué on crucial raw materials as part of efforts to cooperate on areas of strategic interest, according to a senior Washington policymaker.
• 2010/07/14: CCurrents: Is Net Energy Peaking?
• 2010/07/12: SolveClimate: Lloyd's of London Issues Peak Oil Warning
• 2010/07/12: PeakEnergy: Lloyd's adds its voice to dire 'peak oil' warnings
• 2010/07/11: Guardian(UK): Lloyd's adds its voice to dire 'peak oil' warnings
  Business underestimating catastrophic consequences of declining oil, says Lloyd's of London/ISS report

More people are talking about the electrical grid:

• 2010/07/18: PeakEnergy: GE brings smart grid home with energy monitor, EV charger
• 2010/07/15: CNet: Trilliant snags $106 million for smart-grid networking

  And then there is the matter of efficiency & conservation:

• 2010/07/16: NRDC:SwitchBoard: Working Towards Energy Efficiency in India and Worldwide
• 2010/07/14: PeakEnergy: Energy Efficiency: Twice the Impact of Renewables, Nuclear and Clean Coal. Combined

  Automakers & lawyers, engineers & activists argue over the future of the car:

• 2010/07/13: FuturePundit: Home Electric Upgrades For Electric Cars Part II
• 2010/07/15: PlanetArk: GM Offers 8-Year Warranty On Volt Battery
• 2010/07/15: AutoBG: Study: Mild hybrid market to hit sales peak soon
• 2010/07/14: PhysOrg: Yamaha unveils zero-emission electric motor scooter [EC-03]
• 2010/07/13: CBC: Toyota plug-in car to be tested in Manitoba
• 2010/07/13: CBC: Electric car agenda pushed by Obama -- Dispatches White House officials to explore advancing clean energy
• 2010/07/12: AutoBG: Bosch invests $507M annually into electric vehicle development, expects EVs to capture 3% of market by 2020

  As for Energy Storage:

• 2010/07/14: NBF: Battery research could lead to Recharging that is Ten to Thirty Times Faster for Cell phones and Electric Cars
• 2010/07/14: AutoBG: Quebec-based Sud-Chemie receives $75M to build world's largest lithium iron phosphate plant

  The reaction of business to climate change will be critical:

• 2010/07/14: TerraDaily: Biodiversity Is Climbing The Corporate Agenda
• 2010/07/13: UN: Business leaders worried about biodiversity loss, UN-backed report finds

  Joe Romm posts a daily list of top energy and climate stories:

• 2010/07/16: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for July 16...
• 2010/07/15: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for July 15...
• 2010/07/14: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for July 14...
• 2010/07/13: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for July 13...
• 2010/07/12: ClimateP: Energy and Global Warming News for July 12...

  Other (weekly) lists:

• 2010/07/17: NRDC:SwitchBoard: India Climate Change and Energy News - Week of July 5, 2010 to July 12, 2010
• 2010/07/16: BBC:RB: A week spent joining the dots
• 2010/07/13: CSW: Climate Science Watch Weekly Update

  The carbon lobby are up to the usual:

• 2010/07/17: SkeptiSci: The Missing Link, Creationism and Climate Change by Graham Wayne
• 2010/07/16: CCP: Climate Denial Machine -- how Morano feeds it -- This Man Wants to Convince You Global Warming Is a Hoax
• 2010/07/16: SkeptiSci: Part Three: Response to Goddard by Robert Way
• 2010/07/16: CSW: Climate deniers melt away on Capitol Hill
• 2010/07/16: Deltoid: Monckton vs The House of Lords
• 2010/07/15: DeSmogBlog: If exposing the climate deniers makes me a scumbag so be it
• 2010/07/10: RSN: Right Wing Thought Police - An Analysis
• 2010/07/15: BSD: Everything going well for climate denialists, except for climate
• 2010/07/15: ClimateP: Michael Lind of the New America Foundation misinforms on both climate science and clean energy
• 2010/07/15: AFTIC: Only In It For The Gold: Denialism, Informational Conformity and New Coke
• 2010/07/14: NYT:GW: Ads Backed by Fossil-Fuel Interests Argue 'CO2 Is Green'
• 2010/07/15: DeSmogBlog: Carbon Lobby Campaign Targets Color-Blind Readers
• 2010/07/14: ERabett: Mashey tweets
• 2010/07/14: ERabett: A simple puzzler
• 2010/07/14: DeSmogBlog: American Petroleum Institute's Revisionist History on Climate Change Position
• 2010/07/14: TMoS: Global Warming - A Myth? Get a Grip
• 2010/07/13: Guardian(UK): Climate sceptic Morano's 'courage' award is a vicious irony
• 2010/07/13: SkeptiSci: Watts Up With That concludes Greenland is not melting without looking at any actual ice mass data
• 2010/07/13: TSun: Science behind climate change under fire - again [Amazongate redux]
• 2010/07/12: MTobis: Denialism, Informational Conformity and New Coke
• 2010/07/12: ClimateP: Notes from the Denial Industrial Complex: Chamber of Commerce rents its roof to Fox News, Fox News refuses to critically report on the Chamber

  As for climate miscellanea:

• 2010/07/18: TEC: Climate change basics I -- observations, causes and consequences
• 2010/07/18: Guardian(UK): In the frozen waters of Everest, I learned the value of humility
• 2010/07/16: BobPark: What's New?
  1. Population: Re-emergence of the population issue in the UK.
  2. Warming: Its hotter than the arm pit of Fahrenheits missus.
• 2010/07/15: NOAANews: June 2010 Global State of the Climate -- Supplemental Figures and Information
• 2010/07/13: TCoE: Today is Hansen Day 4
• 2010/07/14: MoD: Quote of the Day [Eli]
• 2010/07/14: SkeptiSci: Does partial scientific knowledge mean we shouldn't act? by Stephan Lewandowsky
• 2010/07/14: MTobis: Oh, That'll Work
• 2010/07/14: TreeHugger: Climate Scientists Speak Out: "The Urgent Need to Act Cannot be Overstated"
• 2010/07/14: PeakEnergy: Options aplenty for the low carbon transition
• 2010/07/13: ClimateP: Climate scientists: "The urgent need to act cannot be overstated."
• 2010/07/12: ERabett: What goes up, often melts down
• 2010/07/12: EnergyBulletin: Optimism, harsh realism, and blind spots --- 10 years later

  And here are a couple of sites you may find interesting and/or useful:

• 2010/06/: NOAA:NCDC: State of the Climate - Global Analysis - June 2010
• The Royal Society: Science News
• REN21: Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century
• NYRAD: New York Residents Against Drilling
• FracTracker - Marcellus Shale Data Tracking -- Tracking the impacts of Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling in PA, NY & WV
• Wiki: Lichen
• Wiki: Symbiosis
• Wiki: History of Ecology
• Wiki: Primary Producers
• Wiki: Photosynthetic efficiency
• Wiki: Primary Production
• GWWatch: Global Warming Watch
• BCLSB: BigCityLib Strikes Back (some Canadian GW)

My first novel Water was published in Canada May, 2007. The American release was in October. An Introductionto the novel is available, along with the Unpublished Forewordand the Launch Talk. An overview of my writing is available here.

P.S. Recent postings can be found in the week archive and the ancient postings can be accessed here, which should open to this.

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